Back to Blogging

It has been over a year since my last post.
A lot has gone on that may be worth a post here and there but the reality of it is that were I to sit and write a post then, I would have missed out on the "now" that was happening around me.
I have looked at my blog several times over the past 6 months since being back home in my host country and have wondered how and where to begin. 

The question begs itself, "Why do I blog?"
I don't write like my sisters and friends. I have no idea how to put up links. My grammar and spelling are only as good as the grade I am teaching. I know, without a shadow of doubt in my mind, that I have no profound thought.  I am a learner with more to learn than I have already learned (and no not just in language study). I am a struggling mother and wife with very few victories that would be worth putting down for the general public to read. 

So, why blog?
Because everyone is.
Just kidding! =0) (see I don't even know how to include emoticons).

I blog as an outlet. 
I blog to have a place to post pictures of life for my family and friends to see.
I blog because sometimes I would like to be good at writing with ideas in my head that never come out right in type but at least I can try.
I blog because it lets me let out some of the joys, trials, absurdities, and experiences that I get to have raising two unique kids in a complex world between worlds. I get to express myself with a finished product.  
I blog because it's fun!

Life is busy and complicated here. But hopefully I will find the time to sit and write once a week.
I'm so thankful to the Lord for the chance to share this journey and hopeful be an encouragement and find some myself in the midst of it all.


from Edges of His Ways, Amy Carmichael

Before the winds that blow do cease, 
Teach me to Dwell within Thy calm;
Before the pain has passed in peace,
Give me, my God, to sing a psalm,
Let me not lose the chance to prove
The fulness of enabling love.
O Love of God, do this for me;
Maintain a constant victory.

Before I leave the desert land
For meadows of immortal flowers, 
Lead me where streams at Thy command
Flow by the borders of the hours, 
That when the thirsty come, I may
Show them the fountains in the way.
O Love of God, do this for me;
Maintain a constant victory.

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