I had initially been on the fence about weather I should start a new blog or try to salvage the last one. The last one having been started a few years ago and then left neglected after about a year of use. In order to help me make a decision I attempted to log into said blog to assess its condition. But, no surprise, after so much time I could not remember the password. After trying about 8 different ones, I attempted to retrieve it via e-mail. But quickly found that plan foiled as well. It was attached to an e-mail address that had been hacked into causing me to have to delete it several months ago. And if there was a phone number on the account it would have done me no good because Jim and I both had our numbers changed within the last couple of months as well, getting local numbers as ours were from Wyoming and we now live in Tennessee. I went back and attempted a few more passwords, but no luck. After all that, the message was resoundingly clear: "Start fresh!" So here I am.
Now the post title is "missing blogs" not blog. That was not a typo. Though the other blog isn't technically missing, but the e-mail and password are. Jim and I had a separate blog, not related to daily life, and anonymous. It was just something fun to help keep us accountable for our health and fitness. And after creating it our computer just kept us logged in. I don't recommend taking that route at all! When it finally did log us out I not only couldn't remember the password, but we created a new e-mail specifically for the account, and I cannot remember the e-mail either. I am sure we wrote it down somewhere, and I may find it some day. But I was not successful tonight. I am hoping the future finds us able to reconnect with that one. The other, mentioned in the paragraph above, I am not very grieved to lose.
I am taking all the proper precautions this time. I have filed the information for this blog in 3 different locations. If I lose this one I will take it as a sign that I may just not be meant to be a blogger.
What I thought was going to be a relatively easy task of posting a new blog post has turned into quite a time consuming adventure. Here I am, nearly an two hours after my first attempt to find my old blog. And this is not at all the post I had intended to make. But I have found that what I plan and what actually occurs are rarely ever similar. And as much as I initially fight it (spending an over an hour singlemindedly trying to log into a blog I wasn't even sure I wanted) I have found that when I let go of my plan, and embrace what I am being led into, it will be a good thing or good things will come from it. Like this fresh start at blogging. Or, a much better example, my plan to move to Montana and attend MSU Bozeman as a biology major. Before I was able to gain residency, to attend at a price I could afford, the economy slumped and I was one of many laid off my job. I fought it hard. I searched for another job, fought and fought to be able to stay and stick to My plan. Having to move back into my parents house was NOT part of my plan. But that is what happened. And very shortly after moving back, I met Jim. It was then that I started to learn that My plan will never be as good as God's plan. I still often fight it at first, but it is slowly getting easier to let go and trust in Him.
Tonight I am thankful for my new blog and for my loving husband and our two beautiful children.
"In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps." Proverbs 16:9
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
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