ten years
May 24th, 2015 was the day I published my first blog post, so it feels like it’s worth taking a break from my break to commemorate it. I’m not sure it even counted as “publishing” a post since no one knew about it for a few more months (which was just as well, because some of those first posts were…a bit rough.)
Later that year I started posting every Saturday (fitting that this anniversary also falls on a Saturday) and kept that up for nearly four years.
(oh, I should mention - this is my second blog, so most of those old posts are unavailable except in a pdf on my computer. If you scroll back on here, the earliest post is from 2023.)
I’ve been really enjoying writing in my journal and for my email newsletter lately, where it’s a little less edited and I can just let my thoughts flow. So I thought it would be easy to write a short post for this, but I’m finding it harder than I expected.
Maybe because this month also marks ten years since graduating high school, and I’m feeling the pressure to write something that does justice to ten years of lessons in living and adulting and writing. And since I am the kind of person who thinks and journals in great detail about every lesson I learn, there’s a lot to sort through.
But I suppose at the end of the day it’s all still about Jesus. Always has been, always will be. Every post is just me trying to find another way to remind you (and me) that he is the only way, the only source of life, the only thing that will ever satisfy your soul.
As I look back at both my journal pages and early blog posts as a teenager, I’m kind of blown away by just how deep my relationship with God was at such a young age. But also kind of blown away by how little I had scratched the surface compared to everything I’ve learned of him in almost a decade of being an adult. And I hope I can say the same thing in another decade, and another, and another, for the rest of time.
I can’t wait to keep writing and sharing here on the blog. But I’m still as confident as ever that it’s right to take a break for now, and whatever God has for me to share will still be there when the time is right.
I just wanted to take this moment to praise God for ten years of opportunities to show up and share what he’s placed on my heart. And to thank you for following along, reading, and sharing.
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