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Here it goes...

I have recently seen a jump in the number of people I know who have blogs....I am amazed by each of them in their own ways - creative, beautiful, eloquent words, realness, fun...So from seeing all of these came the thought, "maybe I should try to do a blog!" Then immediately my reactions were 1)what would I say? and 2)when would I do it? But I know all these other people have busy lives as well and are still sharing their hearts. So as I was doing my Bible reading last night, I had the thought again, "I should do a blog!" I feel like God is teaching me so much through His Word (especially through reading it chronologically) that I should share it! Why keep such good things to myself? So this blog's purpose is not to be about me necessarily, but about Him! This will be also be a good tool for our family and friends "back home" to see what is going on with us and what we are learning in our new home.
So I titled this blog "Ponderings of the Heart." (It was harder to come up with a name and design for me than to actually start the post!) But my idea behind this name comes from Luke 2:19 where it says "but Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." Mary's world had just been turned upside down: finding out she was pregnant (while a virgin and engaged to Joseph), probably being looked down upon by her community because of this, traveling to Bethlehem from Nazareth for the census, going into labor while in Bethlehem and having to stay in a barn! Then to top all this off, shepherds showed up to see the baby! And we are told that after all this, Mary took all this in and pondered it in her heart. In a similar manner, God is doing so much in our lives and teaching us so much that we can't help but ponder all of it in our hearts.
So there is my story behind all this. Who knows how long this will last, or how often, but here it goes....

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