Purpose & Intent

I have always been a firm believer that no endeavor should be undertaken without a clear purpose or intention.  You should always have the end product in mind when starting something new.  Take for instance a recipe.  There are not very many of us in this world (with perhaps the exception of my sister) that would attempt to make a recipe if there was no title to tell us what we were making.  At the very least, I would need a picture showing me what to expect as the best scenario final outcome.  Another example that comes to mind is a puzzle.  If there is no picture to work from or at the very least a vivid description to give me a clue what to expect, I would never be inclined to pick up the first piece.  Without a clearly defined purpose or intention, I tend to hang out in the same old ruts - just treading water and longing for a boat to come sweeping by and make some waves.

But this blog…I’m still not sure why I started it.  I have been inspired by reading the blogs of others & I have enjoyed journaling off and on in the past, but do I really have enough to say that will be worth anyone’s time to read it?  Do my mental wanderings have enough substance to publish out there on the world wide web where once shared, you can never take it back?  Should I publish my feeble attempts at crafting & photography?  Would anyone care to read about my strange dreams and funny everyday stories?  Do I want to share my personal journey with God & what He is teaching me?  Just how personal do I want to get when strangers will read my musings and judge me by my latest blog entry?

I don’t have any of those answers yet and I am breaking my own rule by starting this thing without a clear purpose and intent.  Hopefully, it will become a chance to clear my head and learn more about myself.  If not, this too shall pass – after all, good intentions are only good when they are followed with action.  In this case, I sure hope the intention make itself clear to me soon because the first step has already been taken.

Welcome to my journey!