I never thought I'd do this...

I always thought blogging was a waste of precious time that could be spent more profitably elsewhere, and maybe that is true, sometimes. But it is also true that a record of what I do and say and think can encourage myself and, if God uses it, others, to spiritual growth and to realize that I am not staying in the same place in my life.
So, here goes, and I don't know how faithful I will be. This is really primarily for myself, to get my thoughts out and concretely arranged somewhere. I have a busy life (as we all do) and I don't consider this a priority...God has given me many more things to do that I believe hold a far greater value, and, besides that, take a lot of time. For instance, I ought to be practicing for the 5th grade children's concert we are having next week...we are playing the final movement of the Prokofiev "Classical" symphony which is rather....(hard, don't tell anyone.)
Not to mention, and much more importantly, 3 out of 5 precious children are downstairs, two doing school work and one learning for the first time how to draw and needing his mom to ooh and aah over his artwork.
See what I mean? I've already been on here twenty minutes and can't get off!

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