Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Why I Write: One Year Anniversary

Hey Friend,

It is a day to celebrate...for it is my one year blogging anniversary!  I want to say a big Thanks Y'all to those who have been with me from the beginning!  You have been my steady encouragement.  To everyone who has joined along the way, I am honored and humbled that you make time to read my posts!

Congratulations to Ellen B. and LaRhonda L. who won prizes in my anniversary giveaway drawing.  It pays to subscribe and to comment :).  Ellen won a copy of Ann Voskamp's best seller, "One Thousand Gifts - A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are".  I highly recommend this great read.  LaRhonda won a DaySpring mug featuring Isaiah 40:31 and a Starbuck's gift card.  Thanks ladies!

At age 52, I am still pondering what I want to be when I grow up...anyone else feel like that?

I have done my stint as a professional in the business world.  I also taught for several years with a break in between to concentrate on my most challenging and fulfilling role as "Mommy".  A little over a year ago a complicated knee surgery sidelined me from teaching.  When I literally couldn't put weight on my leg for six weeks (can you say stir crazy), I returned to my "first love" which has always been writing. 

What greater topic to write about than our great God who created each of us and loves us with a love that our tiny minds cannot fathom.  This God of loving-kindness has faithfully walked with me through all sorts of trials and tribulations.  This blog, "Walking Well With God" is a tribute to His faithfulness and fulfilled promise to never leave nor forsake me.

I have tried my best to Keep It Real in this boat called Life that we do together.  I have dared to be vulnerable with my life experiences so that we could support each other and grow together. 

I guess you could say that my writing is my faith applied...lived out in order to bring glory, not to myself, but to God.   I am a cracked vessel through which Christ's light shines...at least I try to be.

In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?  (James 2:14)

As the Sunday school song favorite goes, "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine."  My cup overflows with God's great love for me and He has asked me to pour out His love on you.  Do you know how great God's love is for you?  I hope that reading some of my posts has given you an inkling!!

In 2013, my little blog through God's abundant grace, has reached almost 10,000 readers across the globe.  That, my friends, is God at work!!  In 2014, I have chosen the word, "Intentional" as my word for the year.  It is my heart's desire to live each day with more intention and purpose - through my actions and my words.

I have a lot more words to share.  Are you with me for another year?  I hope so! 

I'll end this post with the mediation I always pray before I press "Publish" each week:

May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight O Lord.  Amen.

In His love,

Bev

ps.  I will be taking a two week break for my upcoming wedding and honeymoon.  I invite you to catch up on my 47 other posts in my absence.  You will continue to be in my prayers...

12 comments:

  1. Hi Bev,

    Congratulations! I just joined a few days ago. But, the reason why I subscribed is I did take the time to read your other posts. (Can do a lot of reading when down with the flu, and the kids are too exhausted to fight a nap:) ) I like what you had to say, I can identify with what you have been writing concerning your kids, parents, hopes and expectations, and I also am 52, with two grown children but with two preschoolers. I realize what I thought I knew, I don't know as well I thought. Your blogs helped put my thinking back on track, and have me pondering, and ready to go back in the trenches with my two preschoolers, and my dealings with my grown children. You have been a blessing!

    Enjoy your wedding and your honeymoon!

    Blessings,

    Joanne Peterson

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    1. Joanne,
      Hope you are feeling better soon!! Glad I could provide some reading material :). You have been SUCH and encouragement to me and have helped to keep me on track as well. God bless you for keeping up with two preschoolers! So wish we could sit down together and have a cup of coffee and chat! Praying you are feeling better?!
      Blessings,
      Bev

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    2. Hi Bev,

      Thank you,that is kind and lovely of you to ask. Today, I am feeling better, just shaky and weak. But, what I will say, is the Lord will do what it takes to get my attention, and He's good at it! My boys are getting slowly better too and are rambunctious, not just laying on the couch. They don't sit still unless I am reading to them. If we were closer in proximity, I would love nothing more than to sit down with a cup of good coffee and good conversation. But, one can never tell what the future holds, can we? :) That could happen some day.

      Blessings to you Bev,

      Joanne Peterson

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    3. Joanne,
      One never knows...God has people's paths cross for a reason...thanks for being a blessing to me!
      Always,
      Bev

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  2. Hello Bev!!!!
    Greetings from Athens, Greece! Happy Anniversary for your wonderful blog and a Happy, Blessed and Purposeful New Year to you and your loved ones!!! May you have a wonderful wedding day and honeymoon!!! I look forward to reading all you will have to share with us this year!!!! Blessings and love, Natasha!!!!

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    1. Hi Natasha,
      Welcome - all the way from Greece! That is one place I would love to travel to! What a beautiful country and beautiful people! Thank you for stopping by and for your well wishes...it will be a busy start to 2014. While I'm away, feel free to catch up on some of my posts. I look forward to getting to know you better through my blog! All the best to you...
      Love and blessings,
      Bev

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  3. Hi Bev! I found your blog through Beth! Love it and thankful there are more bloggers out there my age! :) I am going to have a look around am subscribing. Congratulations on the upcoming wedding!

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    1. Hi Barbie,
      I've seen you over at Beth's blog and am so thankful you popped over here! Welcome! Nice to know there are a few more of us "seasoned" gals out there writing :). I pray that God can use the wisdom I have come to learn over my lifetime...but always still learning. Again, welcome!
      Blessings,
      Bev

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  4. Hi, Bev! Congrats on your anniversary and your wedding! Beth sent me over here and I'm so glad she did! I look forward to catching up with you:)

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    1. Thanks and I'll have to thank Beth for pointing you in my direction...isn't she just the best?! I love the cyber friends I have come to know through blogging! Welcome, pull up a chair and feel free to nose around...I'm so glad you're here :)
      Blessings to you,
      Bev

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  5. Bev, Congratulations on your blog and wedding! I am sorry I've not commented earlier. Like Joanne I too have been sick with the flu and just thought I would be able to read having been sidelined but I could not even focus. You have no idea how rewarding it was the other evening when I received my cup. For the longest I have admired a picture at Lifeway Christian Store that has Isaiah 40:31 on it but I could never afford. You got it, the very same scripture Isaiah 40:31 is on the cup! For several months now the message "wait on the Lord" has been with me. Needless to say, when I got my cup, I cried tears of joy. God is so good! Thank you Bev for your words of encouragement and letting others know our Savior.

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  6. Thanks, Anna, for your well wishes! So sorry to hear that you are sick with the flu - yuck! I am glad to hear that the mug and gift card arrived safely and that you are enjoying it :). So often I need to be reminded to "Wait on the Lord"...yes, I can get impatient at times! Thank you for being a faithful reader and feel better soon!
    ((Hugs)),
    Bev

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