A New Beginning

Thanks to my sister-in-law, I have become a blog addict! I love spending time reading about other people's crafty ideas and redecorating inspirations. I have stolen MANY ideas (that I hope I have the opportunity to use) just since I learned the ways of Google Reader in November!

Since it is the beginning of a new year I decided it would be a good time to start a new blog. My first blog was fun, but sporadic at best. Now, after seeing what a blog CAN be, I want to try again. Instead of revamping the old blog I've decided to follow the adage "out with the old and in with the new"! I'm simply starting over!

I think I'm starting over in a lot of ways this year. And maybe starting over isn't the right term. Maybe I'm just starting! This line of thought will actually lead to my next post so I'll stop before I get ahead of myself.

As I was thinking about the direction I wanted this blog to take and what I wanted to call it, I kept coming back to one song over and over again. Sara Groves has a beautiful song that I feel will be an anthem for me this year. I leave you with the lyrics for "Just Showed Up For My Own Life":

Spending my time sleep walking
Moving my mouth but not saying a thing
Hoping the changes would take by working their way from the outside in
I was in love with an idea
Preoccupied with how a life should appear
Spending my time at the surface repairing the holes in the shiny veneer

There are so many ways to hide
There are so many ways not to feel
There are so many ways to deny what is real

And I just showed up for my own life
And I'm standing here taking it in and it sure looks bright

I'm going to live my life inspired
Look for the holy in the common place
Open the windows and feel all that's honest and real until I'm truly amazed
I'm going to feel all my emotions
I'm going to look you in the eyes
I'm going to listen and hear until it's finally clear and it changes our lives

Oh the glory of God is man fully alive
Oh the glory of God is man fully alive

There are so many ways to hide
There are so many ways not to feel
There are so many ways to deny what is real

And I just showed up for my own life
And I'm standing here taking it in and it sure looks bright