300 and Counting

It dawned on me a couple of days ago that when I publish this, I will have written 300 blogs.  It's a little hard to wrap my brain around--300!  I honestly didn't ever see that happening.  I barely got the first one published and even that took almost 3 years.  I didn't think I had anything to say.  Ha, fooled everyone, including myself!

In looking back over my posts, I see that I have written about everything from my relationship with God to recipes, from my travels to my grandchildren.  I've written about my thoughts, emotions, and prayers.  I have shared just about everything--even my dreams and desires.  Yes, I think I've covered it all...and yet, I believe that there is so much more.

I have learned a lot about myself throughout this experience.  I've learned that I am in love with Jesus, that I am exceptionally sensitive and that I love others more deeply than I thought possible.  I have been able to allow God to touch my life and then, in turn, He has used me to touch the lives of others.  How do I know this?  Well, I get a lot of emails, texts, and calls from strangers, friends, and family sharing their experiences concerning their own lives.  I love hearing from others, I love that they are somehow "ministered to" by my blog.  I use that term because that is exactly what is happening.  And I think that is why I keep writing.  Even when I think about shutting this whole blog thing down, I don't.  I've tried before and then--I will feel compelled to write and I end up blogging again.

Maybe this has become an addiction of sorts.  One thing for sure--it has become a form of therapy for me.  A way to write about my feelings, and get out all those crazy mixed up thoughts that swirl around in my head like noodles.  I can port them out on a page (and by page I mean laptop) and then examine them, I can try to sort them out, I can categorize them and lay them out in a somewhat organized fashion.  At least I try to do that.

Yes, number 300 is about to be published.  Scary to think about, and yet very exhilarating.  I like writing.  I like blogging.  I like that you read them.  I like that I feel encouraged to keep on doing this thing called blogging.  Yes, I do.