Within the Lines

mid-summer blog absenteeism

I hope to finally be back for good.  My absence has been due to several conspiring factors:  the season (gardening & going), children's schedules, and, the most significant, self-inflicted intimidation.  

     As a "newby" to blogging, I spent a lot of time random-blogging and enjoying the variety of blogs out there.  Unfortunately, I also spent a lot of time comparing my initial entries and thoughts to others, and failing miserably.  I decided I was too serious, "this one is so much fun, and gets lots of feedback", too harsh "this one is so gentle & persuasive", too off on the wrong tangent "everyone else thinks this way...why don't I?" and just plain too repetitive "others are saying the same thing much better than I am".  Tho I love to write out my thoughts, the whole idea that I "was being watched (or read)" caused me to lose my nerve -- for a while. 

     Now my kids' are all napping simultaneously, so I hope to set aside 1/2 hour + per day to write (if I have to save a draft and finish the next day, so be it).  And I am going to try to just be me, not looking too hard at the next guy.  And I will pray before I write, that God would guide my thoughts, and I and my words would be surrendered to Him; thus if He wants it said by me and 200 other people that's His business!