Some 'Splainin'

If you know me at all you already know this. If not, you will now... I stinkin' love connections. I'm fairly convinced that all things connect in some way to all other things. If you know the book Men are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti, then let me just say that I'm the epitome of spaghetti in my thinking. You can ask me about my day and I'll tell you about my day, which reminds me of some day I had several years ago, which reminds me of something else that happened several years ago... I'm working on cutting my noodles up into manageable bites. Anyway, you have now been forewarned.

My love of connections leads me to find significance in an awful lot of things that may seem pointless. For example, the ladder that I chose as my background for this blog makes me think of going higher in the Lord. If you think about it, it's much safer at the bottom. The higher up you get, the more unsteady the ladder is. When you stand on the top step, it's super dangerous, which is why the little diagram thing makes it clear that you're not supposed to. It's dangerous because you could fall. Well, as I said in my first blog, God is calling me to start doing things that I can't do without him. So spiritually, I'm headed for the very top, and I know for sure that if I fall, God is going to be right there to catch me.

While I'm explaining my blog, I'd like to explain what I want to come out of it. 1) I'd like to be organized in my thinking. Writing to learn is something I hugely believe in as a future English teacher, and I know that writing helps me put my thoughts together and can inspire more in-depth thinking about what God's been saying. It's great reinforcement. 2) I kind of feel like I'm supposed to. I don't know why, but God and I have been chatting about how the why is his business and obedience is mine. He was very nice about it, but I get the point. 3) To encourage. God has so much to say to each one of us and he's made us to fit together like puzzle pieces. As I share with you and you share with me and with others, we start to get a better understanding of God and what he's saying.

Here's what I don't want. Don't be like me where you think if you don't read every single blog entry, you have somehow left something unfinished. Get whatever you can out of whatever entry you read and then go off and hang out with Jesus or whatever else you're up to. I get all OCD about following blogs where I feel like I have to read EVERY one and if I don't then something AWFUL will happen and it never fails that I suddenly have a ton to read and no time and it's just kind of awful. So don't do that.