hi, my name's vanessa and i'm a blogger

Hello Blog-world. I'm Vanessa. Nice to meet you ... Let's be friends.

... So, I'm starting a blog. Why? I don't know if it's the influence of my obsessive compulsive daily blog reading or the fact that I recently watched Julie & Julia or my secret, hidden desire to be a writer or just the fact that in all the craziness of my day, I like to have an outlet ...I don't know. What I do know is that this past year the Lord has taken my life and all that it is consisted of and dramatically changed and challenged my idea of where I felt like it should go, and I haven't looked back ever since!

My life is crazy, but God is faithful. I'm often times selfish and scattered, but my family and friends are graciously wonderful. I over complicate and over analyze e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g, but I crave simplicity and ease. Daydreaming is an escape, but my reality is beautiful. I don't know what my future holds, but I know who holds my future. I am impatient and pushy, yet I'm learning to relinquish control and trying to improve on that whole, "be still and know" business.

Today is the first day of a brand new year, brand new blog, brand new perspective, brand new excitement and I couldn't be happier to share this moment with you, dear Internet.

I decided that this year I would find and hold on to a "year verse", something I could recite like a mantra in the moments where my perspective and focus become fuzzy. I wanted it to be good, maybe even super spiritual, so I felt like it would somehow magically fix every problem I would face this year. Ha. Right. God, like usual, had another idea ... He decided that this would be a year that I would remind myself that I need to take a step back and hand Him the microphone because this is His production and I am just a cast member :)

Here's what He gave me ...

"The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; do not forsake the works of Your hands." Psalm 138:8

Thanks for reading ... tell your friends, this is the next best thing, I promise ;) Here's to a blessed and exciting 2010!!

...Vanessa