For the Love of Writing

Writing is something that I love to do.  When I was a kid, I had a notebook that I wrote little stories in.  I remember that I wanted to be a writer someday (among other things).  When I started middle school, I stopped writing for fun.  I tucked away my notebook and never got it back out.  Last summer I found my notebook and read through it.  A couple of the stories made no sense and most of them were about a girl and her horse.  I guess that was pretty appropriate thing for me to write about as a little girl, since I grew up on a farm.  My stories were not that interesting or exciting, but I did find them to be cute.  For now they’re tucked away in a memory box and I’m sure when I’m an old lady, it’ll be fun to read them again.      

In college, I started journaling and that was something that I really enjoyed.  I have a stack of filled journals piled on the top of my bookshelf.   Journaling for me is purely enjoyable.  I love jotting down ideas or writing about the lessons God is teaching me and I find it therapeutic when I have a bad day.  From time to time, I pull an old journal off the shelf and read through it.  I feel like I’m morphed back in time, as I flip through the pages.  Some journals I enjoy reading more than others, but overall it’s neat for me to read through them to see how much I’ve grown as a person and in my writing style. 

Since college, one journal would last me a year or so.  (I think I was just stuck in a funk.)  However the past couple of years, I seem to be going through a lot of journals.  A lot has been going on and I don’t want to forget anything.  Even since the start of the year, I have done a lot of journaling.  Right now, I’m more than half way through writing in my second journal. Thankfully, a friend of mine bought me a big journal recently and I may need it sooner than I think. 

Even though I started journaling in college, I didn’t realize how much I loved writing until a few years ago.   The fall of 2009, God challenged me to write a Vacation Bible School curriculum for my church.  I wasn’t sure how that project was going to go when I first started it; it seemed like such a daunting task.  But it ended up being a wonderful time and I discovered a love for writing.        

Since then I write most of my own lessons for ministry and I’ve written stories for a couple of little girls at church.  I’ve loved doing that and I’m looking forward to more of it, because I just love writing.  My goal is to one day write a book and get it published.

I’m fairly new to blogging, but I’m hoping that this will be a creative outlet for me to write whatever seems to be on my mind, share lessons I’m learning, stories from growing up and any adventures I’m taking.