Getting Started

 I've had this blog name for over a year now, and I have yet to publish anything on here. It's been a quandary for me how to get started, and there are several reasons. This is scary. For a girl, a woman, who all her life has felt hidden, what craziness would possess me to put myself out there? And while hating the sense of diminishment that goes with hiddenness, I have found hiddenness to be a safe place. There's much less chance of criticism here. It's far safer to remain hidden if you have a thinner skin. (Which I do have.)

But who am I kidding? Out there? Who is going to see this? No one but myself even knows it exists.

I'm not a risk taker. Never have been. This blog is a risk, though. I have no idea what I'm doing. I just have thoughts. And like so many others these days, there's a desire to express them somewhere. 

I think that at anytime in history it can be risky to express yourself, but it feels even more so to me in our current hyper sensitized culture. Who  knows what one wrong word, at just the wrong time to just the wrong reading eye could do to your life? But as a child of God, we are not called to “safe”, but to an adventure.

So, first adventure. First entry. Here we go…