One Big Box

"Life is a journey, not a destination." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a lot of truth to the mentioned quote.  We are all on a journey...or are we?
I've toyed with the idea (for the past year or so) of writing a blog, but I've never really found that one subject that I felt I could write about for an extended amount of time.  There have been little flickers of light go off in my head about this subject or that subject, but none seemed to ignite a fire.  One week ago, a flicker started again, and this time I thought I knew what the subject was going to be about, but I was totally stumped on coming up with a name for the blog.  The handful of names/phrases/titles that came to mind were all taken.  After a couple of days of getting nowhere, I put it on the back burner, once again.  Then, this morning without any thought of this blog, the title/name AND the idea of the blog content just came.  It caught me a little off-guard.  Can it really be that easy??  Think about it, you get nothing; don't think about it, you get something....hmmm.  I quickly got online to see if the name was available, and to my surprise and delight, it was!

I'm sure we all, at some point in our lives, have worked on a maze puzzle; or perhaps even gone through a maze of sorts, like those glass-house mazes at the state fair, or a corn maze.  It's a journey, in a sense, of meandering around this turn and that turn to find our way out.  Unlike a maze, that has different avenues that you can take but only one gets you to the finish line, life's maze has many different avenues for each of us.  We have mountains to climb, hills to slide down, roads that are bumpy, and occasionally a lazy river that allows us to rest, collect our thoughts, and take a deep breath.  So, imagine if you will, that we are all in one big box (aka: maze) with hundreds, or even thousands, of winding turns ahead of us that we can (and will) take.  We will pass each other along the way, and will even travel along side one another at times.  Throughout our time on this earth, we will not only have one journey, as the mentioned quote suggests; but instead, I believe we will have many journeys.  There you have it...one maze with multiple journeys.

This blog will be of my journeys, and I'm hoping that we will meet up with each other somewhere along the way, in the big box.  Topics will range from parental thoughts or questions to makeup tips, relational issues to career decisions, weight struggles to nuggets of encouragment.

Today, I introduce to you....a Maze of Journeys.  I'll see ya in the box.