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This is my first blog, but I’ve journaled ever since my mother gave me a new diary for my birthday when I was seven years old.  My memory says that first journal was pine tree green fake leather, and I remember writing in pencil with lots of erasing.  Typing on the computer is a lot like writing in pencil:  it’s easy to erase and try again.

After I’d been writing with those big, crooked, childlike letters in that little diary for quite some time, I remember thinking the diary was magical, because I could tell which page to open to in order to write a new entry just by looking at the page edges when it was closed.  The pages I had already written on were one color, sort of grayish-brownish, at their edges, and the pages I hadn’t used yet were perfectly white.  I was amazed!  My eyes probably became bright with excitement at the “realization.”  I remember showing my mother how my diary was magical, how it showed me right where to open, how when I wrote on a page, the edge of it magically turned a different color.  I remember noticing that she put her “tongue in cheek,” but I don’t remember whether she broke it to me that it was just from my dirty hands (a lot of times I wrote in the diary after playing outside, and we had a great “sandbox”) smudging all over the page, mixing with the pencil lead, coloring the edges a delightful grayish-brown, or if she let me figure that out myself in my own time.

It’s more than thirty years later now, and I’m finally trying out some of my journaling online.  My journals have become mostly thoughts and prayers, rather than narration, and I expect that will be reflected in my blog.  I don’t know if anyone will be interested in reading my thoughts and prayers or not, but perhaps some of those words may be uplifting and inspiring, a blessing to some beautiful someone who might just be in need of such a thing.

May God bless you through my blog, and in your life.  May He provide for all of your needs, spiritual and physical.  May He give you faith, salvation, peace, love, and joy, in the name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.