One Year Later

Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor can'st thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones and rest their delivery.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, sickness dwell,
And better then thy stroke; why swell'st thy then;
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, though shalt die.

From Holy Sonnet X by John Donne

I'm Back, Baby!

Wow, so it's been a while since I've come on here. Last September I set the goal of writing four entries a month. I celebrated this by never blogging again after September. So, to say the least, my writing is a little rusty, so I ask that you bear with me a bit.

Life has been pretty crazy since last September for me. Actually, life has been pretty crazy for a while now if you've been keeping up. I think that that's just how life is and how it's going to be for a while. Growing up you never really pay attention to all of the change going on because it rarely effects you. It's like we make this gaping assumption that the way life is when we're kids is the way life has always been for everyone around us before we ever showed up.

Life is always changing. So far my life in 2010 is nothing like what it was in 2009. And my life in 2009 was vastly different from life in 2008. Maybe I'm wrong and it will slow down eventually, but I just don't see that happening.

All of this is why I find it important to blog and to journal. Life in interesting. Even a life as seemingly mundane as my own is interesting. These past couple of weeks I've been reading about David in 1 and 2 Samuel and I've almost made it through the Psalms once this year. What I find most interesting about the things I'm reading is that I'm reading writing about David's life, and he's such a man after God's heart that when I read about him I learn about the Lord. That's what I want from this blog and my journal. I want to write about life and I want people to learn about the Lord because of it. I want someday for my grandkids to pick up my journal and not just learn about who their grandpa was, but to learn about the love of God through my life.

So, with that in mind the blog will take a different shape. The biggest change will be that I'll actually be making entries. But other than that, I have mostly used this thing as a chance to write a devotion, which I will definitely continue doing because I love sharing what the Lord is teaching me, but I'll have more "Life of David" entries just telling you about what's going on in my life or what's on my mind. We'll see how that goes and whether or not I'll actually stick to it.

If you actually enjoy reading my blog and you see that I haven't written for a while, feel free to yell at me about not writing. That's a freebie for the one of you who'll probably read this who doesn't happen to be my mother.