Intro #2

I had meant to start a blog for the longest time already.  I never could start it up again. The hardest part about anything really is just that beginning, that starting things up. I am trying again now because I am so inspired by one of my favorite blog, which I actually found through wedding planning, called Feeding the Soil. The author, Sara is everything I want to be, well not exactly everything, but pretty close to it. I really enjoy reading about her philosophies and thoughts. She is an organizer, a listmaker, and a visionary, she knows what she wants to do. She’s very purposeful in everything. She has a life book, with a section for every aspect in her life, stating her goals and the process to reach them. She also makes scrapbooks and other crafts.  There’s a lot of women like that in the blog world (thus being successful at blogging too). One thing I really like about these women is that they are very productive, they make great use of their time and they have great things to show for it, either in their pictures, in their step by step recipes, or even in their reflections of the experience.  So I want to be like Sara, I want to be productive in life, not waste time, but instead feel like I’m alive, not like a zombie, but that I’m alive in the way I use the time God has given me. That is something I really struggled with in this time period of my life, the period post wedding and in unemployment. I remember one of my friends, Eva, reminded me that we are made as BEings and not DOings and so we are called to be with God and not be consumed by the things we do.  I don't want to become a busybody, but I do want to be more intentional and purposeful in the way I do things so that I can be my best.  Honestly, I don’t know if this desire of mine really reflect who I really am or just who I wish I can be cause I’ve tried to be more organized but I usually come back to where I am now and be only a tiny bit organized and wishing that I can be more.  So we’ll see how this comes out.  Oh and to ease my transition to blogging again, I decided to use a voice recorder to record my thoughts and then transcribe it again afterwards. Now that I think about it, this method probably takes up more time than if I were to just write directly, but for some reason I’ve always thought blogging would take so much time to write which then inhibits me from actually writing. Anyways I like it so far, so as with all things, we’ll see.