Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The First Post

I've never been around for the birth of a blog; is it customary to spend the first post justifying the decision to start one? I could ramble for paragraphs explaining the lead-up to this very moment – my first ever blog post! – but I’ll leave it at this: I have a squillion questions I’m looking for answers to. Questions like:

What does God think of women? How do you make bread, and is it worth the effort? What makes a marriage work? Is swearing wrong for a Christian? Does God love my husband more than He loves me? Why does the Bible make me feel that way sometimes? Do I really want to buy a house one day, and why? How many leg waxes will it take before the hairs just don’t grow back? Should I re-read the Twilight series or will that spoil it for me? Am I actually an introvert or did I just take the test at the wrong moment in my life? Why is it that some friendships die but others last a lifetime? Why do I feel so guilty deleting Oxford commas from my writing? Do I need to be consistent in my removal of them, or can I make judgements sentence-to-sentence? Why are there so many people who claim to know exactly what the Bible’s saying, but who interpret it in a completely different way to another stack of people who also claim to know exactly what the Bible’s saying? Will I ever again know what it feels like to sleep for longer than 3 hours at a time? And what if the Hokey Pokey really is what it’s all about?

I’m hoping this will be a good forum for all the pondering.

6 comments:

  1. RE the bread question: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/02/is-homemade-food-always-best

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  2. Thank you, I loved the article! I'm adding bread-making to my list of things to do in 2012. Maybe in March...

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  3. FYI Grant calls them HARVARD COMMAS. It's enough to make me rethink our entire relationship.

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  4. PS I'm starting at the beginning on the web, and at the end on my phone, because I can't work out where I am otherwise. Just in case you panicked and thought I read through 3 years with no witty comments. do not fear.

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    1. Haha!!! I actually cannot figure out how you're tackling this! It doesn't seem like you're going through chronologically! Do you have a system?

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  5. I told you!!! on the web (so at work) I'm reading from the beginning, but the rest I'm reading backwards. I think.

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