The Month of March marks a year since I launched this blog! I thought it would be fun to reflect on why I started writing here to begin with:
1) I love to write.
2) Writing here is one way of testing a growing sense of call to write. That's how we get clarity on any call, right? We launch into it and see if there is fruit, or what happens as we step into the new thing, as a way of testing the sense of call.
3) I was at the point in life where I felt I needed something new to put energy into that taps into my desire to create and develop something. My blog scratches that creative itch!
4) Over time, the blog will become a sort of memoir. The things I write about always come from my own life experiences and personal learnings. Someday I'll have a collection of writings about stuff that's been important to me along the journey. Otherwise, knowing me, I'll forget. I guess you could also say then that this blog helps me to remember what's important, which is what memoirs do.
5) To push myself to learn something new and to keep on learning.
6) I saw the potential to connect with people all around the world, thus not being limited to the sphere of my particular geographic location.
7) To encourage and inspire myself. I know, sounds narcissistic but I'm learning to find encouragement and inspiration from within and learning to need it less from others or outside sources. And from someone who has historically needed quite a bit of encouragement from others, let me just say that learning to find encouragement from within is a step in the right direction. But, feel free to send some encouragement my way anyways :)
8) To experience God. It's interesting, but I find that in the process of writing that I experience God in some pretty cool ways. Writing helps me to stay connected and surrendered to the Source.
There you have it. The reasons why I started this blog in the first place. Later I'll write about the some of the things I've learned in the process that I didn't see coming when I first started this. And maybe even later than that I'll write reasons why I think YOU should start a blog if you haven't already!
How about you? What do you like to do? What are some of the reasons why you do what you do?
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1) I love to write.
2) Writing here is one way of testing a growing sense of call to write. That's how we get clarity on any call, right? We launch into it and see if there is fruit, or what happens as we step into the new thing, as a way of testing the sense of call.
3) I was at the point in life where I felt I needed something new to put energy into that taps into my desire to create and develop something. My blog scratches that creative itch!
4) Over time, the blog will become a sort of memoir. The things I write about always come from my own life experiences and personal learnings. Someday I'll have a collection of writings about stuff that's been important to me along the journey. Otherwise, knowing me, I'll forget. I guess you could also say then that this blog helps me to remember what's important, which is what memoirs do.
5) To push myself to learn something new and to keep on learning.
6) I saw the potential to connect with people all around the world, thus not being limited to the sphere of my particular geographic location.
7) To encourage and inspire myself. I know, sounds narcissistic but I'm learning to find encouragement and inspiration from within and learning to need it less from others or outside sources. And from someone who has historically needed quite a bit of encouragement from others, let me just say that learning to find encouragement from within is a step in the right direction. But, feel free to send some encouragement my way anyways :)
8) To experience God. It's interesting, but I find that in the process of writing that I experience God in some pretty cool ways. Writing helps me to stay connected and surrendered to the Source.
There you have it. The reasons why I started this blog in the first place. Later I'll write about the some of the things I've learned in the process that I didn't see coming when I first started this. And maybe even later than that I'll write reasons why I think YOU should start a blog if you haven't already!
How about you? What do you like to do? What are some of the reasons why you do what you do?
