Showing posts with label Second Chances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Chances. Show all posts

Monday, March 29, 2010

The post about running away from my old blog.

Yes.  I confess. I ran away from my old blog.  Without nary a peep to my followers.  Is nary even spelled right? I hail from the south and we use "nary" a lot but i don't think i've ever put it on paper (or screen) before.  Oh well, there i go "digressing" again.  Back to the story.

I don't know if you could even call it really running away when i didn't delete the old one ( I have a lot of funny kids stories on there and a few about Vance that i really want to keep and haven't moved anywhere to save yet) AND I kept the blog name. I only changed the URL.

Here's the short version of the "why" - i felt a very strong conviction from God that i needed to let.it.go.  "IT" being a lot of anger that I was still carrying around post divorce. WAY post divorce.  And it was like a poison y'all. Anytime the kids' dad did the smallest thing, I could go straight to those archives and relive past arguments and just forget everything good that has happened to us since.  You won't see a lot of chatter about any of that here. 

It's funny, because as soon as i finished creating the new blog, I signed into Proverbs 31 ministry's website to read my daily devotion and I had to laugh.  The devotion was all bout "Do-overs" - and really, who can't use a good "Do-over" every once in awhile?  Yesterday's devotion scripture was based on this verse:

"'Then neither do I condemn you,' Jesus declared. 'Go now and leave your life of sin.'" John 8:11 (NIV)

Luann Prater - yesterday's author goes on to say this:
Have you ever wished for a do-over in life? I have. I've been that woman who had no hope. I'm a witness: Jesus is the master of second chances. Throughout the Bible He not only raised the physically dead, He resurrected the spiritually and emotionally dead as well. 

 - so this my friends is my "Do - Over".

 Happy Monday :)