Scribbling is What I Do Most

I love this quote Scholastic Scribe had when they posted this award.

“Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is the scribbling child in a grown-up body, wondering if anyone is listening.”
~Herbert Gold, Elder Statesman of The Beat Generation~

I want to thank Debbie at Heart Choices for this award, how she has been a blessing to me. One day we emailed each other and suddenly we found we had a lot in common with places we have lived. I love the blogging world because I get to met people I would have never known otherwise. You as readers challenge me and help me grow. You deal with misspelled words, run on sentences, and garbled thoughts, yet you still return (does my Mom pay you?). Seriously THANK YOU.

When it comes to writing anything I am Moses:

“But my Lord, never in my life have I been a man {woman} of eloquence, either before or since you have spoken to your servant. I am a slow speaker {writer, have you seen how I spell Lord?} and not able to speak well {write well; there are so many others who are better}.”

Then the Lord said to him {Laurel}, “Who has made man’s {women’s hands?} mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord Now therefore go {write}, and I will be with your mouth {words} and teach you what you shall speak {write}.”(Exodus 4:10-12). (brackets mine ;)

I am not implying everything I write comes directly from God, but when I write devotionals for LWG, even book reviews for CWO, or a post on marriage at Wedded Bliss I pray first and ask God what he would like to communicate.

Several times I have come close to giving up blogging and writing, then inevitably I would get an email telling me how something really helped them and drew them closer to the Lord.

If I only help ONE person draw closer to the Lord, everything I do is worth it.  Lord knows you as readers and fellow bloggers have drawn ME closer to the Lord.

Thank you Debbie for your encouragement, your comments, and your friendship.

Now I need to pass this along to 5 most-deserving Bloggy friends (because the rules tell me to =).

1. Iris at Sting My Heart, I would not still be blogging if it were not for her friendship.

2. Angie at The Knightly News her encouragement and kind words keeps me going.  There was one time (awhile ago) she mailed me a card, not knowning what I was going through and she left me sobbing at the mailbox because I knew her kind words were from God.

3. Lynn at Spiritually Unequal Marriage.  We may not talk daily but I know if I need prayers she is right there for me!

4. Kelli, she is my hero.  I want to have Kelli’s perseverance and humor when I grow up.

5.Heather at An Untraditional Home.  She challenges me to think outside the box, I love to hear her view points on things.  We agree some of the time and sometimes we don’t but I adore her!

Rules:

    *Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Bloggy Friends.
    *Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author & the name of the blog from whom he/she has received The Award.
    *Each Superior Scribbler must display The Award on his/her blog, and link to This Post, which explains The Award.
    *Each Blogger who wins The Superior Scribbler Award must visit this post and add his/her name to the Mr. Linky List. That way, we’ll be able to keep up-to-date on everyone who receives This Prestigious Honor!
    *Each Superior Scribbler must post these rules on his/her blog.

Why I blog and Other Goodies

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Blog is defined as a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.

When I read this definition it kind of sounds self serving. And in some respect, for many of us when we began to blog, that was our original thought. Most of us enjoyed the journaling aspect to journal family events or funny occurrences along the way. What many of us bloggers, who have been blogging for some time, found out by accident is that it is not about us. Yes we blog to journal our family events, but there is so much more.

I am speaking only for myself, but I think others may agree.

Our heart strings become tied to others we may never meet face to face this side of heaven.

There are ones we are honored to be able to pray for. There are others who have become close friends. Some bloggers you go to for humor, some you go to for a serious thought, some for updated world events, and others just to check in and say hi “I’m thinking about you.” Whatever the purpose, they all become part of your life. And those of you who think online blogger friendship is fake, well I share my opinion on that with this post Are They Real or Are They Fake.

This award Janeen gave me got me thinking about all the different bloggers I visit. Each blogger is very different, each offering their own view on life, many I visit have different views then what I have, but this is what I love about the blogging community.  Or maybe it is just my love of news and being in everyone’s business.  Whatever the case, I love blogging, I love writing, but more importantly I love all the people I am able to learn from and connect with.

And Janeen is one of these people.  Thank you so much for this award I will display it on my About Page proudly =)

Also if you link to me on your blog let me know.  I have added a section of “Reading Suggestions” every time my paged is refreshed it displays 6 new blogs (cycling through the list).  So if you link to me I will add you to the “Reading Suggestions” list.

Have a great Monday!