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I love the fresh new feeling Spring brings with it.
I have a lot in mind for this space in the coming months.
I intend to redesign and reorganize.
There was a time when I posted several times a week.
What is different and what has hindered me from doing that?
A lot. Mostly life changes.
In 2008, I began a private blog for family and friends to keep them updated with what was going on in our lives since we were living on the “other side,” as my friend Angie’s son used to call it. (He was only about 6 at the time he referred to it that way years before I started writing but just after we move to the Philippines, now he is in high school. Ugh. Where has the time gone?)
In 2009, on my birthday, a decision was made that would drastically change our lives.
On that day, as a gift to myself, I signed up on blogspot and created Hiking Toward Home.
I wrote about my “hike,” my walk with the Lord, and began to post photos of the view along the way, what was going on in my life.
It was my intention for this blog to help me to focus on the bright side and the blessings the Lord showered upon my life by writing about them.
I participated in Tuesdays Unwrapped, linking up with Emily at Chatting at the Sky, to force me to look for the small blessings of the week and chatting about my kids and daily life.
I blogged about very random stuff; what the kids were up too, our international move, the my struggles … with legalism … and the culture … we were living in.
My hike has taken me through many difficult struggles since I began to blog here.
We moved home from the mission field as our work was completed there and passed the church on to national leadership, voting in a new Filipino pastor, under whose leadership it has continued to grow -Praise the LORD!!
Upon returning to the states, my husband was called to pastor a church. Though I wrote frequently, life became harder and harder and I found myself sinking deeper into depression. As the church situation and depression grew worse, I wrote less often.
The Lord allowed for us to walk away from that ministry and brought us into a whole new life; a new church family, a new home, a new job situation for my husband, and a new school situation for the kids and I.
The reasons I didn’t write were varied.
***to be continued***
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