Never In a Million Years

I have always been a writer. When I was in elementary school I would fill the scratch pads my dad brought home from work with my stories.  I put one of those stories (and created card catalog cards for it) in my library in my town. I wrote stories for my teachers. I filled my teachers’ desks with my papers (stories, research papers, business projects). In my corporate days I filled my bosses’ and higher ups’ in-boxes with manuals I created and ideas for improving either the business or the procedures.

After graduate school, a friend of mine and I published a textbook on financial management. Still, my heart and mind were full of more to say. In the ensuing years of parenthood and being a homemaker, I filled my mind and conversations with my beliefs, analogies, stories…I longed then and now to reach out to people. I always felt called to strengthen and encourage. i often did reach out—in friendship, through groups I joined, and oh so many ways.

That was and is one of the reasons I began this blog. I am loving it. I love the uplifting people I have found. Never in a million years, though, did it occur to me that people would actually regularly stop in to read what I have to say. Today when I took a peek at my stats I was astonished. I began blogging in earnest about a year ago. I filled in prior dates during the post a day 2011 project. But really, I began posting in earnest late April or early May of last year. As of today my stats said “30,007 views all-time”.

I don’t post to brag or ask for kudos. I post this amazing fact to thank you. I really do thank you. It means so much to me that I have a chance to express myself. It means even more that some of my thoughts, hopes, prayers, and ideas not only reach people, but help them, too. So to wordpress, my blogging friends, and He who created me, I say with humility and gratitude….thank you. You enrich my life~thanks. To those who ‘follow’ or ‘subscribe’ — my deepest thanks.