I'm Back

I haven’t blogged in a couple months. You don’t need to tell me if you noticed that or not. 😊

But now that I’ve called the fact to your attention, you might be wondering why. And that’s a valid question. But I’m not sure I have a good answer.

At first, I just got very busy. We had a certification visit at my school, and being on the admin team, that meant I had a lot of responsibilities for the week. Then I was tired after that and gave myself permission to rest up. And then it was “Warrior Week” at school, our equivalent of Homecoming with all the craziness.

And then was Thanksgiving with people visiting . . . and I got sick that week and took a while to recover (I was so stinkin’ tired) . . . and then . . . oh, I don’t know . . .

I just didn’t have anything to say.

And frankly, that’s a dumb answer because in all honesty, how often do I have anything to say here? I mean, anything of real importance or significance? I’m mainly just dumping my brain onto my keyboard to keep my writing skills a bit up to date. Once in a while, something comes out that others enjoy or are impacted by, which is awesome.

But I don’t know that I can take credit for that. Again, I’m brain-dumping. And honing my craft a bit. If it means anything to anyone else, that’s probably a God thing.

Nevertheless, I’ve felt a bit guilty for neglecting the blog. Doing the writing has been good for my brain. It forces me to practice good word choices and sentence fluency, the skills I’m teaching my middle school students. It also makes me think more deeply about things and form opinions and look for answers and pray and all the good stuff.

It seems that I haven’t been thinking deeply for the last couple months. I’ve spent much of that time either bogged down with my job or too tired to think intelligently or intentionally allowing myself space to be an ignorant, lazy bum.

But, we’re back to school today. The holidays are over. Time to get back to real life, and I suppose real life for me needs to include writing once in a while, even if it’s just for my own benefit.

So, if you need a word of inspiration today, I’ll give you a quote I’m putting in my newsletter to families this week.

The measure of our love is the measure of our willingness to be inconvenienced. (Elisabeth Elliot)

Maybe you said “Ouch” when you read that. If so, recognize that as a good ouch. Love -- real love, agape love --  is rarely convenient.

And neither is blogging.

Happy New Year, all! I hope everyone had a great holiday. I sure did.