Well, I have been here before. The first blog entry of a new blog......... As you can probably tell those blogs have not worked out so well. They all begin very well intentioned and then end up unattended.
This is the unfortunate trend I am trying to change. I am actually sitting at Panera with Charlie right now and we both have experienced this problem with blogging. I chalk mine up to lack of discipline. But me and charlie have meet weekly for the better part of the past year. We have gone in spurts of just getting coffee and talking, and spurts that we meet and do goal setting/accountability. Last spring we were very disciplined with goal setting and meeting, that was very helpful for me in keeping perspective and accomplishing things I wanted to.
Anyways, I wanted to address the name for my blog. Choosing a blog name is very difficult (For me) because there is that expectation that the name of your blog will have a lot of meaning and significance, or you can go completely against that and do something extremely generic. I was struggling witht this when naming my blog. I decided on NY152Shopgirl because those are the two screen names for tom hanks and meg ryan (respectively) in the movie "you've got mail" Which is arguably my favorite movie.
You've got mail: I absolutely love this movie. I also feel like I can relate to the characters in certain ways. With Tom Hanks character I feel like I could see myself being in my mid 30's and still having not met "her" (the one) being in a relationship that I knew I was not crazy about but it was ok and being optomistic about how it would get better and then finding something amazing based completely off of personality. The connection that is formed over email is just incredible. I have half-joked about searching all of the small mom and pop book stores for single females that work there. I think this is could be a viable option if I am still single at thirty.
There is so much I want to fill this blog with/empty from my head but I feel like this is a good stopping point. I need to start putting things on my calendar for this week.
If your reading this my prayer is that you would have a deep encounter with God today.
Like the song in church today said "Prone to wander lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love,". I pray today you won't leave the one you love, and who loves you unconditionally. I pray that I won't leave the one who loves me today.
