Why I Started a Blog

       

All throughout high school I wanted to start a blog. I wasn't sure how, but I made a plan that once I graduated I would do it. I'm not really sure why that was the timeline I set for myself. Maybe I thought by the time I was nineteen I would have a lot more life experience, and, therefore, more knowledge and ideas to write to others about. I guess it would seem kind of silly to write posts meant to help others when you're only fifteen and really have no idea what you're talking about. Honestly, looking back at it now, I'm glad I waited because who knows what I would've written about, not to mention how embarrassing it would be to go back and read those posts now. I still don't feel qualified to have my own blog. I mean, who am I to give people advice on how to live their life because I'm not perfect either. Most of the things I want to write about on here I'm basically writing to myself. I need to learn and apply those things more to my life as much as anyone who reads them. But I know there's a reason I have always wanted to start a blog. God doesn't just put things on your heart for no reason. He has a plan for how He'll use this blog, and I want to be obedient to His voice and follow through with it, no matter how unqualified I feel. It's a very scary thing to start a blog. It requires you to open up and be vulnerable, sometimes sharing stories from your life that you normally wouldn't share, especially on the internet for the whole world to potentially see. Especially, for someone like me who isn't a very open person at all. It takes a lot for me to open up and be vulnerable with people, and even then I only pull back one layer of myself at a time. That partly stems from past hurts; from trusting people wholeheartedly just to be let down. But it is mainly just who I am, and the personality God gave me. I'm excited to see how this blog allows me to grow in that area of my life. It will challenge me to be more open and vulnerable, and to not care what others think. I'm in a young adult group at my church and we talked a little about how you know what is God's voice in your mind, or just yourself, and someone said that if you hear a voice telling you to do something out of your comfort zone or something that is more generous than you would do on your own then it's God speaking to you. So, that's the main reason I started this blog. It's something that is so far out of my comfort zone that it scares me, and something that I don't think I'd so willingly do on my own that it has to be an idea from God. I feel like I have so many things I want to talk about and share with others so that I can help them through the things they're struggling with right now. I want to help people grow in their faith, and encourage people to start working on a relationship with God. I want to help people through dry seasons in their life, or even just times of struggle. I want to help girls get through rough breakups because I've been there and know how hard it can be. I want to bring happiness into people's lives so they can forget about all the crazy and evil things that go on in this world. I want to just simply share about my favorite things; things that I love to do, places I love to go, books I love to read, and shows I love to watch. I want to show girls that you can still dress cute and be stylish while staying modest and having respect for your own body and the people around you. That list just scrapes the surface of what I want to accomplish with this blog, and I'm really excited to start working harder on it and really being able to reach people with it. It would be considered a success in my eyes if I only helped just one person.