Writing Life

I realized today that I tend to write better when I am blogging - when you put a blank piece of paper in front of me, I don't know what to say. It's like I know that writing on my blog might actually get read by someone. It makes me put on my best (I know, it's hard to believe this is my best). I find myself writing BECAUSE someone is reading.

I guess thinking that someone might read this (thank you to the two people who do regularly) makes me think harder. It holds me accountable to actually making some sense. I notice that there is something at stake when I write and think there might be somebody reading. Somehow the writing matters more if there is an audience.

There is such an obvious translation to real life here. Imagine if we lived our lives like I write - adjusting what you say and how you say it just a little, kinda out of respect for the person who might be reading - because they matter to you.

So here is the closest to profound I am going to get in this blog. I actually made it up myself, so please be at least a little impressed;

"Write your life as if someone was reading it"

Maybe this whole thing is a game in my head and I am the only one that reads my blogs. Even if that is so, I know God reads. I know that He reads and watches and loves what I do. He doesn't really care about the misspellings in my life, or the dangling sentences. He doesn't care when I begin a sentence with a forbidden 'and' or 'but'. He just delights in my being His kid. Its like the thousands of pictures of trucks and airplanes that the boys draw for Laura and me. There is always a new one on the fridge - and it doesn't really matter if it is any good or not. They are our kids. That's all that matters.

So write the story of your life as if the whole world would see, and when they see, may it be Jesus that shines through your life.