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"Create Blog" has been on my to-do list for years. I have transferred it from to-do list to to-do list, from the ones scribbled on an envelope to the "official" one on my phone. Perhaps what was holding me back was that I didn't know what I wanted to say...or was it that I lacked the courage to say what I wanted to say? No, it was that I lacked the self-confidence to think that I had any right to say anything of importance and meaning.
Who am I? I am Julia. I am in my late 20's. I am a wife, mother and pastor. I don't pretend to have all the answers... I know that in 20-some years of living and learning that I have merely glimpsed at life. So who am I to write a blog worthy of others to read? I am someone who is learning to grow. I am someone who is daring to love.
If there is one thing I learned in seminary, it is that it isn't easy to learn, grow or love. It isn't easy to lay aside everything you think you know to hear someone else's story and perspective. It isn't easy to accept that maybe, just maybe their story is "true" ...at least to them. It isn't easy to open the door of your mind and (holds breath) heart to learn and grow and love. If we open our minds, sometimes we have to admit that we are wrong, that what we have learned is not complete truth, that the people who taught us (yes, those ones we love and respect and look up to!) are fallible. If we open our hearts, we run the risk of getting hurt, or scarier yet, finding out how deep love can go--being vulnerable--learning how to put others before ourselves.
So, I don't presume to have all the answers, or any answers really... but this is a place where I will write. I will write what I learn while my spirit hitches a ride in this fire-haired, earthly body.
Thanks for reading. Blessings.
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