Sunday, June 2, 2013

Welcome!

I'm diving in. I'm starting a blog. After much prayer, God finally said, "just do it already." Or at least that was the gist of it. The Lord made it clear that, if this isn't His plan, He'll let me know. The worst thing that can happen is that I start a blog and it fizzles out. Which isn't such a big risk, really, compared to other life decisions. 

With the decision made, the next step was picking a blog name. I don't anticipate having any trouble filling this blog with content, but a name was difficult. Brevity is not my strong suit. I want to fully explain everything. No short one-sentence-expresses-it-all for me. To complicate matters, I want the freedom to blog on a wide variety of topics. What kind of title could encompass everything? 

Prayer led me to a specific verse: "It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God." That's 2 Corinthians 3:5 in the NLT. Other versions say that our "power", "ability", "sufficiency", "adequacy", and "competence" come from God. Basically everything I do, I can do because of Him. Anything I'm lacking in, He supplies according to what I need. 

That verse made my soul say, "yes!", but it didn't help me pick a blog title. I considered "Our Adequacy/Qualification/Competency/Ability/Power/Sufficiency Comes From God" but for some reason that didn't sound right. I couldn't pick just one of those words - all of them are so great! See what I mean about my difficulty with stating things simply and briefly? Fortunately my Mother-in-Law is more skilled at this than I am. She suggested a plethora of options. The one I chose is God+Anything=Enough. 

Of course God=Enough all by Himself. I like the addition (literally addition, since it's a math equation) of "Anything" for two reasons:
1) No matter how firmly I know that God is enough, sometimes I forget that God is still enough even when x, y, or z comes my way. 
2) This means I can blog about absolutely anything, by definition. 

That's how I got here, making this first blog post. We'll see where this blog takes me! 

4 comments:

  1. Yay! So fun. I am definitely subscribing and looking forward to following along with you.

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    1. P.S. I want to follow your blog but can't find the button (or follow it in my Bloglovin' feed). Let me know when you get that up and going (or show me where it is if I'm blind!)! :)

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    2. Rachel,
      Obviously I'm still new to this. :) I've now added a couple of options to follow me - on the right side of the page.
      -Kathleen

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  2. i never knew you were such a fantastic writer. i look forward to reading more

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