I have given in.....

Well, it appears as though I have given in to the trend. I have officially become a blogger. The process of how this came to be is still rather cloudy to me. Even as an avid journalist at heart, I fought the idea of getting online for an extra and at best unneccessary 30 minutes a day just to pour out thoughts, feelings and emotions that many times would be better left unsaid. However, strangely enough, I feel as though the decision to jump on this bandwagon is far beyond myself.
Each day, the Lord works miracles in my life....sometimes small, many times big, but miracles all the same. I hold firm to His word and it is there I am told to tell of His work and His mercies in my life. Over the past couple of weeks, I have had the opportunity to read friend's blogs (many times while pretending to pay attention in my Islamic Religious Tradition class) and through that I have been blessed by not only reading about mere events in their lives but more importantly reading what Jesus is doing in their lives....both in the form of blessings and struggles. In this, I hope only to impact lives....some would say that is overly-ambitious for a simple online journal, I would say, maybe but without ambition, what are we left with?
For today, the explanation for the title of my blog "the sunshine of His face"...it comes from a favorite poem by a 19th Century Writer.....

"Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand,
The shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land;
A home within the wilderness, a rest upon the way,
From the burning of the noontide heat, and the burden of the day.
I take, O Cross, thy shadow for my abiding place.
I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of His face,
Content to let the world go by, to know no gain or loss,
My sinful self, my only shame; my glory all the cross."
-Elizabeth Clephane