Line by Line

Well, congratulations to everyone who has stuck with me thus far - this is officially post number three!  You guys are awesome and keep up the wonderful comments and words of encouragement because you have no idea how much they mean and how much they inspire me to keep going!

This past week I thought long and hard about how to improve my blog and what to write about and other such things.  If you haven't noticed already, take a look around at the subtle changes I've made.  On the right side bar, I have listed some blogs that I like.  My brother has just started a new blog this past week called "Sitting Down to Bleed" and we are now blogging buddies!  I encourage you to CHECK IT OUT 'cause he's pretty great (but I'm not biased or anything)! :)  I also created another list of links to websites I enjoy (I will be adding to it more) including my Pinterest account (actually it's under my Mom's name) and if you dare to look at it, you will see how utterly Pinterest-obsessed I am.  I also have a link to my blog's Facebook page!  Y'all readers out there, please please please share my blog with your friends and whoever else you think might enjoy it!  I appreciate all the help I can get.  And if there are ever any improvements you think I could make/topics I should write about or just suggestions for my blog, please don't hesitate to let me know!

Anyway, now that the boring stuff is out of the way....

Today I have decided to introduce you to one of my closest companions.  And you have probably already guessed this by now, but I figured I'd give you a formal introduction to one of my very best friends: WORDS.  Crazy, I know.  But really, I have yet to find something more beautiful, more elegant, more creative, more unique, more vast, more boundless, than WORDS.   I have always been head over heels in love with them.  Learning a new word gives me this rush of adrenaline, this little spark of "what could I do with this".  I write them everywhere: in my planner, on sticky notes, in my journal.  I. LOVE. WORDS. 

Okay, so now you're probably thinking I'm not so sane after all.  That may be true.  But all my life I have been drawn to words.  Reading words. Saying words. Forming words. Learning words. Spelling words. And most of all, writing words.  Over the years, I've gotten more and more obsessed with words in bigger ways.  Since I can remember, I've followed my Dad's example and I've written poems.  I don't recall a time when I wasn't a writer.  I've just always been one.  As I got older, and my knowledge greater, I found hope and joy in others' words.  In the Word of God.  In literature.  In poetry.  In music.  A couple years ago, I started making a quote wall on the back of my bedroom door.  It started out with just two quotes.  As of right now, the door is about two-thirds filled with quotes.  Just the other day, as I was looking through my Pinterest quote board (oh yes, my PINTEREST quote board;)) I realized I ought to be sharing my words more.  They mean so much to me.  I need to share them with others, too, so they can have the same feeling I get when I read them!  So each week, I am going to give you a quote, I am going to share my words with you.

Now as I continue on this blogging journey, I am hoping to each week give to you a source that inspires me. It may be a person, a place, an event, or an object.  This week, seeing as how it is the second week of Advent, the thing that inspires me happens to be HOPE. 

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Romans 8:38-39

Have a great week and rejoice in the HOPE He has given us. 

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