Why I Write

In school I hated writing.


It's true. I was the math and science inclined girl who would use as many quotes as possible on a page to increase my word count. If I could create a graph to illustrate, you better believe it was nestled into the sentence fragments that made up my paper.

While I leaned toward the right side of the brain, I have always loved to read. I would fly through biographies, study encyclopedias, read poems, and soak up mysteries.
I loved reading words; but not writing them.
Middle school and high school ended.
And a couple years went by....
Then one day I made a decision: I would write every day for a year.

It began with my terrible memory. I have the worst. I can remember what happened last week, if I'm lucky, maybe two. But ask me about something that happened a month ago and I will be grasping for a calendar. So my decision was to serve as an aid. I would write the highlights of the day, one day at a time. In the beginning, my entries were painful fragments about the monotony of life. I knew they were pitiful. But it would help later, right? A month or two in, and my ramblings were bearable; not good, but bearable. Fast forward a bit and I loved to write. Was I good? No. Not at all, but I was able to put my thoughts and observations down on paper. It was a huge step.
Now I have my own style. Now I write all the time. I'm still not any good, my grammar is atrocious, I still write in fragments...but I love it.
I write a friend every week about what's happening in my life.
I write letters to friends who live out of state.
I write to my sponsor child in India.
I write when something wonderful happens, something that I never want to forget.
I write when something tragic happens, something I want to look back on and find the blessings in.
I write down ideas, plans, encouraging words, song lyrics, verses....

Because I want to remember.

I want to look back over the years and be amazed.

I want to be amazed of how God used my situation, 

my friends, my decisions, my life.

I want to be reminded that all of God's promises have been fulfilled, 

not one of them has failed.

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