Conversion to Blogging … But Closing my Twitter Account to Keep the Balance

It took me a long time to decide whether or not I wanted to do this. Whether I wanted to bear my soul to the universe. Blogging seems to have become on of the latest trends … I’m putting it right up there with facebook and twitter.  In fact, I couldn’t completely make up my mind. Proof of this being that I created this blog in June and I am just now writing something. However, over the last three-ish months I realized that there’s a lot that I’m learning and not to share it or even write it down would cause it to be forgotten by mostly myself. I also want those I love to know how I’m growing and what’s plain going on in my life.  It’s so difficult to stay close when separated by so much distance sometimes.

Okay so now that I’m done justifying my bending to a social trend I begin my first blog. Wait … wasn’t that 157 words ago?

Anyway … the name of my blog. Saturday’s Not Long Enough. Aside from its very obvious and true meaning it holds deeper meaning to me. Two years and nine months ago I graduated from college. Shortly after graduating, the Lord opened the door for an amazing job that I’ve been blessed to have. However, working 40 hours a week and having a life outside of work leaves very little time for someone to just work on themselves. Saturday’s are those days for me. Days where there is no work element and all that remains is daily life. Time to to be who you’re supposed to be as a child of God. To grow. To be better.

I want to be better.

And this isn’t something new. For the past two years and nine months I have been growing to be a better person than I am. Some days I feel are more of an accomplishment than others. I’ve been trying to learn from every experience and to grow from it. To be a totally kingdom minded person. I guess what triggered this thought is something I was reading in scripture the other night. I was reading about John the Baptist. John 3:22-36 In this passage one of John’s followers comes up to him and basically says “John, everyone is following Jesus, they like him better now.” but John doesn’t mind. Not one bit. His response is something along the lines of “Good! I’m glad! I don’t need people following me, when the real deal is here. He’s here and I am glad that many are following him. I become less so that he is increased” Man! I want to be like John. His perspective from the very beginning is the cause of the kingdom and not himself. As though it’s his first nature to know that we should come second! It was a pleasant reminder of how my mind and spirit should function.

So I don’t want to waste my Saturdays. They’re just not long enough in real life. But maybe I can suspend them through this blog.

Thanks for reading!

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