Friday, November 14, 2008

I’ve decided to blog again. I haven’t written since the date stamp on my last post, for which there are a few reasons. I started this blog when I left the Twin Cities to spend a year in Tyler, TX to go through missions training with Youth With A Mission. My intention was to use this as means of conveying news and communicating with family and friends back home. When I returned home I continued writing infrequently and sporadically. But over time I felt that continuing to communicate this way was superfluous, so I quit writing. I also felt that my words were going out into a dark abyss of emptiness, my writing consisting mostly of random drivel and ramblings on.

I’ve never been a regular writer. My journal entries come and go in fits and starts. I internalize most things and frequently frustrate because my writing is so much slower than my thought processes. But a recent conversation with a dear friend who suggested I rethink my posting sabbatical prompted me to do just that. After all, I do write once upon an occasion, and it is in human inclination to want to be heard. But more than simply the desire to be heard but for the hope that these occasional posts will edify have I changed my mind. Therefore I will post.

I don’t promise a very great quantity of content. My goal is to post a handful of times a month as the urge arrests me. I will do my best. Feel free to post comments but be forewarned, a reply is not guaranteed and I most likely won’t comment on your comment. Thank you for reading. I hope you’ll be edified.

3 comments:

~ Sara said...

Well, I for one am glad your writing. You are a gifted writer and am glad you chose to share your thoughts with us lowly ones who cannot put theirs into words that make any sense.

dmj said...

Erika, your writing has much wisdom. I know people will be edified. (-:

Anonymous said...

You are writing into 'a dark abyss of emptiness,' or at least something like that. The world is often dark and is empty for many people. It can only be good to try to bring some light. Good to see you writing again. (it'd be okay to skip the random drivel...)