Journaling

During the last two years I have experienced the blessing of journaling. Two years ago on my birthday, I decided to have a full year of writing my thoughts, lessons and prayer requests during that year. I have not stopped to this day.

Today I can tell you it was a tremendous blessed decision. Once in a while I read back and see how God led me during these last two years. I have to tell you, not everything I read is good or make me proud of, but everything reflects God's hand molding me to become a better "me".

There are so many lessons still to learn and so many experiences to go through, I want to make sure to record them. God told the israelites, many times, to tell their children and grandchildren what He had done for them. I feel journaling is a tool to bring glory to God in future generations. That is why I am a scrapbooker as well. These two tools provides us with infitinte ways and oportunities to share our journey of faith with the ones that will come after us.

I encourage you to start writing. It is hard in the beggining but you will be glad you started. I just read an article that talks about journaling as a family and I am copying the link below. I hope you get some ideas from it. It is from Women's Connection e-letter I receive weekly. I hope you can use some of the presented ideas.

I hope you enjoy it!

http://www.christianitytoday.com/tcw/2006/004/15.26.html