Marching to the Beat

A Great Invention

Continuing on my quest to log on daily (which alas, I have not) and continue on through the list of categories, I am back again a couple days since my last entry and most definitely out of order of the categories because I could not think hard enough to find  subject matter or where any ingo pertaining the next one on the list could be found. 

This one was very easy.  I am doing it, weblogging, and I love it.  I find this program to be the best by far of the various ones that I have perused which cost a few dollars to use.  I like the style, the format, the help features, the security features, and just about everything about it, including that it is mine.  8-)

Time Waits For No One 8-)

As much as I tell myself that I am going to blog daily, or at least more regularly than I have been, it just doesn't happen.  And yet, time moves on.  8-)

There are a wealth of things that I read about, have thoughts about, and occasionally speak to one or two people about, but for the most part, I become so caught up in getting things done around home that I just don't make it here.

It seems that the last time I was here was May 24th, which was two weeks ago already.  In that time news has continually happened that I have read about, had thoughts about, and talked about.  I really want to be blogging about it as well.

There is the governor's primary recently run in my state of NJ, the recent sentencing of a young man to life in prison for kicking his girlfriend in the stomach to cause the abortion of her unborn twins (she is free from any legal wrong since abortion is her 'right'), a missing teen in Aruba, shameful display intended for the WTC Memorial in NYC, the overturning of a conviction of a corporate criminal, my son's high school graduation as well as his recent SAT's, an overwhelming amount of classwork, homework, and report assignments that are due as well as that I have to wade through, correct, check and log grades for, the rehearsals for the ceremony, our filming of it with limited equipment and space, and a celebratory party for my son's high school graduation.  In between all that happening I continue to battle illness and attempt to keep the house from being overtaken by the dust monster, trying to find the balance I once had between all these things going on at once and finding time for them all. 

I did have that balance once.  Indeed, I was once into time management and did very well.  Not any more.  I tell myself that I will content myself with at least restoring a semi-balance to the completion of the tasks at hand in my life as well as the pleasureable pursuits of my life, of which I consider this blogging thing one.

My success with such a goal will be evidenced in part by regular blogging entries; whether they are profound posts or trivial posts. 

Till then.

No Rhyme or Reason

I blog so seldom that I sometimes wonder why I keep this blog.  The truth is that there is this thing inside of me that says I like to write.  However, I am so spastic about my commitment to it that I debate keeping it, canceling it, keeping it, canceling it; you get the picture. 

Suffering from depression adds to the uncertainty of why I bother as well as the knowledge that my opinions are unpopular enough to have people gnashing their teeth at me because they don't like what I believe. 

Interestingly enough, I disagree with plenty that others have to say, yet no bile producing hate wells up in me towards any of the persons possessed of differing ideas, thoughts and words.  Funny too, but not haha, that these are the very people who call me the intolerant one for my views.  I don't get it but I kind of do get it.  (Hey, it is statements like that which prompted the No Rhyme or Reason title for this blog entry.)

Alas though, I don't feel well enough to argue with folks, and I suppose I am harmless enough. 

What is wrong with this thought:  I think that the people of Iraq, as well as the (enslaved) people of North Korea, the people of the Dafur region of Sudan, and many, many others, need a free people, unified, who would lay it on the line so that they would not be enslaved, tortured, murdered and oppressed.  I think free people like us, owe it to others who don't have the incredible, mind boggling freedoms and choices that we take so for granted, to help provide the same opportunity to those who are oppressed by their fellow human beings. 

Short But Sweet

A short blog post is better than no blog post.

I rather dislike New Year's resolutions and have not made one in many, many years.  So many in fact that I don't remember how long ago I stopped doing it.  I do remember why, however, because the memory of failures seems to stay with me.

To that end, though, I propose to log on once a day and briefly, or lengthily, depending on the situation, touch on the topics on my list that I want to write about.  It is a list I keep adding to but not getting around to coming here to write about.  I want to and hope to change that.

Holding On

I am holding on to this whole weblog site and idea with the hope that I can eventually make it work for me the way I would like.  It seems though that my own life with its responsibilities conspires against my even getting here regularly!  To an extent I think it probably good that I take what I have to do seriously enough that I take care of business before pleasure, which writing is for me, but at the same time it is frustrating because I want to write on so many subjects and have not yet been able.  Come Christmas break though, I will be free of some of my normal day to day things with the added bonus of having my husband home as well. This will give me the chance to use my active times for writing rather than the homeschooling, which is where most of my energy goes to.  I look forward to the break with great anticipation. 

My Weblog Title

I chose this title for my weblog after some thinking. What I was thinking was how my opinions are shaped and influenced by the rhythm tapped out from within the Word of God and its direct bearing on and in my life. The truths within it have stood the test of time, the examination of men looking to both affirm and dismiss God, and the simple searching of a lost soul looking for worth.

Within my weblog I will share many of my opinions as well as the truth about many things. These truths are not my opinions and never will be. One of the observations that I have made about truth is that it doesn't always sit pretty with my opinions. But rather than bend it, twist it, adjust it, hide from it or deny it, I try to face it, and in the facing of it I have always found a quiet confidence in God and a place of rest.

I think what at times makes my opinions unpopular is because the truth they occasionally reveal exposes wrongs that someone is trying to call right. What happens then of course is the label making machine comes out and stamps me intolerant, hateful, etc. and etc., which is mighty intolerant of the rubber stamper if you ask me. 8-) After all, I am entitled to my opinion as well as anyone else.

So I continue to march to the beat of the Word of God hidden in my heart and it is my prayer that I always will.

Designing vs. Posting

Posting wins out you know. If you don't have a whole lot of time to spare, then posting must win out. This is not to say that designing my weblog is not very important; it is, but I have so many things to do that I must set it aside. I have just spent the past forty-five minutes trying to figure out the different settings and choices, but now I have to leave it as it is. I have reading to do, writing to do, checking to do, phone calls to make, and the ever constant household chores (that keep the dust monster at a relatively tame level) to take care of.

But I like this weblog sort of thing, though I am none too anxious to enable the comments section for now; at least not until I am quite comfortable with blogging and understanding all the workings of the site. This could take some time for the above reasons of the busyness of life.

Who Knew?

I certainly didn't. Know that is. About weblogs of course! Now that I know what I did not, I hope to get to know as much as I can about blogs and the ins and outs thereof.

Being that I am so new to such things, I must take my time as I peruse the many benefits and functions of blogging. Once I am familiar with the operating of a blog, I hope to incorporate it into my list of things to do regularly. 8-)

Consider this my first post.