Blogging for Memories

I have loved keeping a journal since I was a teen.  Lately I have felt the desire to clean out, to simplify...and I see journal after journal, composition books,parts of tiny notebooks---all piling up.  So I think ,"I will just throw these away,"

I sit to read through them one last time...and I am remembering days of joy I had forgotten.  I am remembering times God brought me through life when I just knew I wasn't going to survive.  

How can I throw these away?  Well, something has to be done. 

So ....I am going to work on putting the journals into a digital format.  Some entries will go here if I deem them worthy of eyes other than mine and God's. 

I have noticed a pattern.  My writing includes daily events interspersed with my thoughts with a hefty portion of Scriptures copied down and the occasional song lyrics, poem, or quotes that spoke to me at the time.  There are even my original songs and poems as well.  But most of all there are memories.

So the literal factual part of my brain is struggling with the date.  I record the memory here and the date is 2025 although the actual day was 2008.  I think I will just put the original date in the title.  

Hopefully there may be something in these scribbles of ink and pencil on paper that may one day be of value to someone else who reads them, relates to them and sees what God says in His Word about them. 

Here we go!