Finally...

It's pretty obvious by glancing at the dates on the posts that I have not written in this blog in a while. My blog has morphed various times over the past few years - from one of the earliest versions of "blog," to it's current state (I even considered Wordpress recently - because you can play around with photo layout more). I don't read many blogs in my spare time, so I wondered what the point was in keeping one of my own. You don't know who reads what you wrote....

But if you look on my shelf you'll see that I have at least 3 types of journals. There's the one I write freehand, my quiet time journal, my ministry journal, and my Internship One/seminary/staff meeting/lists journal.

I don't know really what the point of this journal is... but I think I'm closer to defining it. I might have a specific writing style from now on.. or post specific types of photos... I also probably won't be as political as I've been... not that I'm apologizing... However, I think it's important to keep my notes from South Africa, grad school, the West Bank, and my beginning days of FOCUS within this blog.

I also just might not write in it anymore... I think it's purpose was fulfilled, and now that I'm in the States I can keep in touch with people again in a way that I couldn't when I was abroad :)

We'll see what happens... but it's definitely come a long way from the first time I created a blog with my roommate Kris in South Africa. First, it felt like bursts of clarity, then a place to regurgitate thoughts from class, a venting wall, and then a place to share joys of ministry in boarding schools. All these things have been important at different points. But now it's time to end... maybe now.... we'll see ;)