Why

Hi! I'm Kristin and the guy in the picture next to me is my husband, Jacob. We got married on October 1, 2011. Outside of the day we both asked Jesus Christ to be our personal savior, it was the happiest day of our lives! We've been wanting to start a blog for a while now (particularly me:)) but have been putting it off! I wanted to write a short post as to why I want to start blogging again.

1. We want to share what we are doing with our friends and family around us. Since it's summer and I'm off of work, we are going to try a lot of experimental recipes and we want to tell some of our culinary tales on here. We also just want to update on what is going on with us or share funny stories (because there are a lot!:))

2. I've felt led for a long time to share what Christ is doing in my life and teaching me via blog. I used to blog when I was in college/grad school (kdup26.blogspot.com), but fell away from it as the busyness of life after college/newly wed life kicked in. I feel as if writing is a hobby that God has really blessed me with. I enjoy visualizing Christ's teachings like a series of paintings in my head and then writing how He's teaching me down. If I could do anything else in the world besides be a speech pathologist, I'd be a writer. Very few things make me feel more alive and as if I am fulfilling God's purpose for me than writing.

Right now, God's teaching me a lot about trust. He's strengthing my faith through times of doubt, both in myself and at times in Him. He's teaching me about how good He really is...how full of light and my immense need for that in a body and world filled with darkness. He's also teaching me about purpose. I feel that God has blessed me with spiritual gifts of encouragement, joy and love. I feel as if I oozed one of those three things as a high school student and college student. God allowed those gifts to flow easily wtih me. As life has changed, like a river who's path has been interrupted, those have been things that I've had to strive more for. Through that struggle, God has been showing me how much I rely and need Him in my heart and mind always.

My goal is to post 2 times a week. So we will see how that goes! :) Thanks for reading!