Regard­less of the topic, I  want to open con­ver­sa­tions about the ele­phants in the rooms of our lives.  Each per­spec­tive is a valid view of the issue at hand, but it is the com­pos­ite of them that reveals the true nature of the prob­lem.  That is the point.  I am not here to rant.  I am not here to dream.  I am here to make you think.   I am here to inspire you to action.

Some of my posts will be polit­i­cally ori­ented, but I am not striv­ing to have a polit­i­cal blog.  I do, how­ever, want to awaken peo­ple to the fact that pol­i­tics affect every­one on some level.  Your vote does mat­ters, espe­cially on a local level.  (For exam­ple, if my hus­band and I would have known what day to vote, we could’ve tied the vote for the school board mem­ber hope­ful and the incum­bent board member.)

Some of my posts will deal with eco­log­i­cal issues.  I con­sider myself a sup­porter of respon­si­ble ecol­ogy, but I am not a polit­i­cal envi­ron­men­tal­ist and weigh things on a scale based upon my per­sonal val­ues, as every­one does.  I love recy­cling, but I also love sty­ro­foam cups.

While I, per­son­ally, am a ded­i­cated Chris­t­ian, do not expect an overtly reli­gious blog.  I will dis­cuss other reli­gions and belief sys­tems, and though I may explain my per­spec­tive on them, I wel­come infor­ma­tion and will not shy away from top­ics many Chris­tians avoid for the sake of “the appear­ance of evil.”  I will also not get involved in point­less cir­cu­lar argu­ments about reli­gion.   I know where I stand, and I know God will hold me account­able for where I lead peo­ple.  I just also believe that infor­ma­tion and dis­cus­sion is a means of sharp­en­ing my sword, not of dulling my testimony.

Some of my posts will depress you, some will anger you, and some will (hope­fully) bring a ray of sun­shine into a dreary day.

I believe this will accom­plish two things:  prompt­ing grat­i­tude and prompt­ing action.

Whether the grat­i­tude revolves around “I’m glad that’s not me” or “thank you for shar­ing your story,” action is what changes things.  Your men­tal out­look in deal­ing with a cir­cum­stance changes, allow­ing you to con­sider actions you never thought of before, or prompts another per­son to action because of your perspective.

If I am suc­cess­ful, that think­ing and inspi­ra­tion will result in action, and I will have to ded­i­cate a page to telling the world what my read­ers are doing!