Keeping a blog is funny-weird. I click on my own link sometimes and think to myself “what the, this person hasn’t updated in ages”… then realise that I am the proud author of sixteentwentyfour dot wordpress dot com.
I know I’m a pretty good starter. I’d start off anything with a bang and a bag of excitement; But ask me how the new project is going down the road and I may reply “Huh, which one?”. I think I lack the discipline to see things through as the months go by.
Haha, so I don’t know what I’ve gotten myself into with this blogging thing. Especially when the recent article by Christianity Today had this to say about blogging:
“A lot of people have been in and out of this thing,” Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer told reporters. “Everyone thinks they have something to say, until they’re put on stage and asked to say it.”
[No, this blog wasn't started to make me famous with my fifteen people. ha, the last thing I need is something to keep me thinking about myself.]
I started blogging in anticipation of the new Canon (GRIN) and with hopes that it would appease dear overseas friends (yes, you) who threaten to divulge my deepest darkest secrets on Facebook if I don’t update them. But more than the frivolous wish of having my deepest darkest secrets kept secret, I started this thingy so that friends can walk with me. As I grow to be more like Christ (Romans 8:29), it’s my hope that I encourage others with what I learn along the way (: Who knows, maybe one day one of my posts may also encourage someone out there seeking Truth (: I very much wanna be a good finisher (as opposed to only a good starter). We’ll see!
N.B. in the odd&improbable event of withdrawal symptoms from lack of my blogging, please note that i can be bribed to update with a single serving of gelati (flavours: green tea, frutti de bosco, roche or jamaican chocolate. durian sometimes accepted.).
Hi!
I typed up ‘these lines on my face’ in Google’s Search Engine in hopes to find the song with the beautiful lyrics. Not only did I find ‘The Story’, but I also found your blog. I read your journal entry talking about the song and Brandi Carlile and agree with you. She’s an amazing singer and now, I love her acoustic version.
What really captured me, though, was the utter joy I felt when I read your other blog entries. I, in particular, read all of the ones under ‘for the sisters’. I just wanted to say how much it touched me that I was seeing someone develop, grow and live with Christ. I don’t normally see it, with many of the people around me not committed Christians. Your blog gave me hope. Particularly heartfelt was your journal entry entitled ‘Amazing grace’, with your first word in it – ‘wow’.
I’m going ‘wow’, too.
What a blessing to know this! Thank you for sharing. I know that God uses your journal to talk to me and other people by your yearning of a relationship with Him.
I will enjoy reading your journal entries even if you don’t write here anymore. Thank you for sharing. I wish you all the best, that you may find your journey with God, stick with it and be, forever, a testimony of His grace and love. God bless you!