Me..blogging??

I have decided to take a shot at this blogging thing even though I am not quite sure how long it will last or what it will contain. I have never been good at writing, keeping a journal, or anything of the like. Sure, give me a research paper to write or a article to critique and I'll be fine, but ask me to tap into this type of writing, and I have no idea what to do.

So why did I decide to start a blog in the first place? I'm kind of at a stand still in life right now, just graduated college, waiting to take the nursing boards, waiting to find out where I'm moving, if I'm moving, waiting to get a job, which leaves me with a lot of time on my hands. In this new found free time, I came across a few blogs of people I know so I started reading them. I was amazed at how God used one persons blog to speak directly to me. I was on Katie Johnson's blog, and I found myself entranced, because I caught a glimpse of the intimate relationship she has with our Saviour. A relationship that, yes I have, but becomes so easy to put on the backburner. God used her blog to remind me of what it can be like when you work every day to pursue and grow in your relationship with Him. Not only that, but I have been constantly asking God what exactly I am supposed to be doing with my life? I find it very hard to trust God for His plans and not go with my own. Then I read on of her entries which said "I’ve been waiting on God for my next step for months. I’ve been anxious for guidance from God for a while. And as I’ve sought, experienced and gotten to know God more- all I’ve heard is 'Wait. Be patient. And trust me.' And so I decided to."

It was so clear at that moment, that that is what God wants me to do. Be patient and wait, and trust that Gods plan for my life is greater than what I could ever plan for myself. So thats what led me to start one of my own. I can not only use this as a means to look at my own relationship with God, what He is teaching me, what work He is doing in my life, but maybe one day someone will read my blog and God will speak through it to them, the way he so clearly did through Katie's blog to me.