Getting Started

So.......I decided to enter the "blog world."  This morning, well early morning at 4:00 am, the open water bottle on my nightstand got knocked over by my pillow and poured out on the floor.  Lame.  I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep.  I layed in bed and had some thoughts. 

I went back to work this week.  (I'm a preschool teacher off for the summer, and I had a week of summer camp.)  Well, anyways...I was realizing in the early morning hours that when I am busy working, I spend less and less time dealing with heart issues.  I have so many other things that I have to deal with on a daily basis, that the inner workings of my heart go on the back burner.  I like down time, and I have been spending way too much time on Facebook.  I love me some FB, but it's been taking up time that could be spent more productively.  I come up with a one-liner to describe "What's on my mind," but I'm not ever getting to the deep things, just the surface.  That's when I got the idea:  I like to spend time on the computer to chill, so why not blog, so I can kill two birds with one stone. 

I want to be aware of what's really on my mind.  I don't want to go through life unaware.  Last night I sat in the summer air and watched my kids catching lightening bugs.  I love how they are little lights that illuminate the night sky.  Here and there, they bring hope and a smile to my face.  I felt like the Lord wanted to open my blind eyes and deaf ears.  I received an email this morning that talked about the Lord wanting to do that very thing with His children.  I think this blog is a way for Him to do that in me. 

Well, here I go.....