Why this blog?

Dear Whoever Reads This,

I decided to create a blog because, like my mother, I am often met with an itch to compose with words. Lately I've been thinking more and more often that I would like to write... something. I have a big girl dream to someday write a book, but I don't completely feel like a big girl yet so we'll see where that goes. For now, I simply don't know where to start. There are a few topics I'd like to write about and actually have people read what I write; you know, like an article or something. But how does one jump straight from an itch to write to publication?

This blog is "a work in progress" for a few reasons. For one, things that I write here are likely to be literal works in progress. Thoughts that bounce around and clamor for attention in my head and demand to be heard by someone other than me but that I'm still not quite sure how or where or when or to whom to voice them.

Secondly, I am a work in progress. There is a better, higher, perfect Author who is writing my story every moment even as I attempt to scrawl my own thoughts on a page. I am far from complete, much like the things I hope to write someday. But I know that unlike blogs that are begun and forgotten, I will be fully written and polished and complete because the One holding the ultimate pen of my life does not let His Word fall to the ground, and His Word states that the work He has begun in me, He will see through to the end.

My scribbles may be incomplete, uninteresting, painful, or perhaps even enlightening or funny. But my story will be brilliant, because I am a masterpiece of the ultimate Author, Jesus.