Introductions

Welcome to the great big world of blogging! Everyone has something to say and everyone has a way to say it. This internet development really is a crazy, noisy, beautiful idea. The whole idea of starting a blog can be really intimidating, I mean… think about it! I am now expected to write about the good, the bad, the ugly. The interesting and the mundane (but mostly the interesting). And it needs to be concise, pretty, and perfectly written. Well, I will warn you now - I like adjectives and long sentences. I write like I speak.

Any high school English teacher would tell you that a well-written paper or book is about a single subject or contains a theme. When I was trying to decide what to write about, I was thinking about my life. Where would I find the most material?

I am…

• A Christian
• A wife
• A twenty-something
• A high school teacher
• A Sunday school teacher
• A youth worker
• A normal person (most of the time), and
• A temporarily displaced youth pastor's wife

So tell me, what in all of that, has a common theme? All I could think of, is that all of those "hats" happen every day. They make the person that I am. The person that I have to juggle on a daily basis. The person who has to wake up every day and decide to wear each of those hats to the honor and glory of God. Every day it is a decision and everyday it is a surrender. 

And that is where we begin, daily surrendering to serve the Lord as a follower of Him, as a wife, as a young person, as a high school and Sunday school teacher, as a youth worker, as a normal person living in this world, and Lord-willing again one day as a youth pastor's wife.