Reviving the Blog!

I am reviving the blog! I set this up when I headed up a fundraiser to help with adoption expenses for Maddie Ponter in the Spring of 2011. God used those posts mightily, and when the fundraising was over I didn’t post anymore. I couldn’t decide what direction I wanted to go with the blog. At that time I had named it Patterson Posts, so I thought about doing one of those family blogs where you tell about what you eat for supper and what your family had done all day complete with pictures.

Well, I do cook supper, but people might get tired of seeing the same pictures over and over, because we also eat leftovers. Once, when Meg was young, and after I had cooked a large casserole, she told me that we had eaten the leftovers so much that she couldn’t remember when we had eaten the original mealJ. I would also have to keep my kitchen cleaner if I were going to take pictures of cooking. I decided against moving the blog in that direction.

I love to look at blogs where a family has young children and you get to see all the cute things they have done during the week. I’ll just say to the moms and dads of young children: Snap those pictures! Every day! And post, post, post! Take all the pictures you can right now, because a day is coming (I’ll just say: teenage) when you pull out the camera that you have to promise to your child that you won’t put more than one or two of the pictures on Facebook and you have to pinky-swear and spit-shake that if the pictures aren’t very good you won’t tag your kids in them.  We do fun things as a family, but I would not win mom points with a 17 and 19 year old if I posted pictures of our trip to Dairy Queen or our family card game! So I had another thought…

A craft blog! I love to craft, but decided I would rather spend my time actually crafting instead of taking pictures and writing explanations of what I was doing. That’s what Pinterest and YouTube are for, right? I know many blogs have a particular focus, like an adoption blog, which is wonderful!, but that is not us. I just don’t feel that our family had any special skill or interest worthy of writing about. And I have to consider the time factor. I work full-time, if I am going to do a blog it needs to be deserving of the time I am going to put into it, and you are busy too!

I started thinking that there are things in our world worthy of my time to write and your time to read. I began thinking of all the ways that people, ordinary people, are sharing God’s love and his message of salvation in our community and throughout the world.  These stories are what this blog is going to be about – ordinary people who are sharing God’s love and message. The blog is still Patterson Posts, but the theme verse is Romans 10:15 "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"  I want the focus to shift from our family to what others are doing. And if someone in my family shares God’s “good news”, well, maybe my daughters won’t mind me posting a picture of that.J