External Word Processing

I want to be a disciplined blogger, that is, to blog regularly with meaningful content.  In real life, I am an extrovert who only becomes most aware of her opinion while talking.  This process works when I talk to myself in my head or out loud in the car or shower,  but I most learn about myself, life and God while I'm talking with others.  I don't know why.  It's like the words/ideas come out and hang in an invisible cloud above my head where in full view I truly see them and ether own or dismiss them.

So, the truth is, today I don't have any one thing to say.  I'm thinking about a lot and so to remember the many ideas I have, I open new blog posts with titles but no content as reminders for future posts.  I thought if I started typing that the words and concepts of most importance might rise to the top.  So far, I'm just distracted by the fact that if I let my very active two-year old keep sleeping now that I may be contending with my active two-year old at 5:30 a.m. (We still haven't figured out if shorter naps mean longer night sleep.)

My readership of this blog is roughly 3 people, so it's hard not to think of them when an idea comes to mind, although it does excite me to release my thoughts into the blogosphere, not knowing who might stumble upon them.  (Is it only me, or am I stalling?)  Ah!

Yesterday I encouraged a friend that when she is feeling that she is not doing enough to encourage her own family to pursue a relationship with Jesus that she should remember that Romans 8:1 which says, "Therefore, there is now now condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."  A trusty reminder that if we are hearing a voice that tells us we don't measure up, that in any regard we aren't good enough to move in the ways God has called us, if by simply being who we are, we aren't much use to anyone-that IS NOT God's voice. (I love arriving at a conclusion, even if by process of elimination) I'm sharing this because it is a good word from the Word for us all.  After all, my post title, to which an obsessive honesty trait binds me is about External Word Processing.  Feels like the Word should get a mention.