My Blogging Debut

So, I'm joining the masses, starting my own blog. Not that much of interest goes on inside this head of mine, but my reasons are two-fold: there are things I want my children to remember, and there are things, spiritual things, that I hope to gain and share with others along the way. Not to mention that I could use an exercise in grammar...I imagine that English teachers would cringe at my use of the word 'things' in the previous sentence. :) Nevertheless, my blog goes on.

Life is busy. I'm convinced that one's time can just as easily be consumed with no children as it can with three. Thinking back on when John and I first married, I wonder what I did with my time, how I rarely seemed to have a spare moment to spend with God. And while I often find myself in the same position now, struggling to fit a little quiet time into my day, I realize that it is a matter of priority.

I want my children to see in me an example to follow, something that makes them want what I have in my relationship with God through Christ. If there is one thing that I couldn't bear, it would be to know that my children chose to be eternally seperated from God. I cannot think of anything that would be more devastating. And so, as a final note, I want to leave a passage for my kids. My prayer for them comes from Ephesians 3:14-19:

"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God."

That you know His love and that Christ dwells in your hearts by faith. That's my prayer for you, my precious three. I love you more than words can express, but that doesn't mean that I won't try to find the words. It just means that I'll need a running blog to get started. :)