Rule number one of blogging is that you actually write something on the blog. When I started blogging I felt like I was writing something everyday, but life has caught up with me and I can't write as much as I would like. Actually, it isn't so much that life has caught up with me, but that I am wanting to be intentional when I write here on the blog. I have always said that this is my journal, and I very much write like this is a journal...with no worries about grammar and punctuations (thus my love of multiple periods after every sentence...) So back to intentionality... I recently turned the big 40, and it really has had me thinking deeply.
(Take a peek into my deep thoughts) OK, so the average lifespan today is between 70-80 years. Of course a lifespan is not determined by statistics made up by men, but by God, but the reality of life is that no one lives forever. So with looking at the average lifespan, you could say statistically that I have lived about half of my earthly years. That thought in and of itself really stuck with me, and it has caused me to do some evaluating of my life. There are so many things that I want to do...not bucket list kind of stuff, but to me heavy duty life stuff.
-Witness to that friend that I have known forever
-Have that conversation with that family member that I have been wanting to have for years
-Be intentional with being a good neighbor to my neighbors...not good in the world's sense of thinking, but good so that a door may open so I can share Christ with them
-Really learn what it means to fast and pray
-Actually I really need to learn what it means to pray first
OK, so you get the idea... Turning 40 has made me realize that I can't keep putting these things off hoping to do them one day. I must be intentional now with the time that God has given me...each day of life is to be lived for Him fully. I have lived a lot of my life for me, and not for Him and I don't want to do that anymore.
Well, it is time for me to go, but I said all of this to say that in 2011 (God willing) I want to be intentional with everything I do, that includes this blog. This blog has been for me in so many ways, but if it is something I should continue to do I want to turn the focus more on God and how He is working in my life...that is the title of my blog after all (To Know Him)...
Blessings friends, and may you seek and find Jesus this Christmas season and beyond...
