I’m letting you in on a little secret. Most of the time when I sit down to blog, I have only a shadowy, vague idea of what I’m writing about. Usually, I sit down and start typing with my two trusty keyboard fingers and the words just come out. It’s uusally a first draft with little or no editing. Like a stream of consciousness thing.

I’m as surprised as anyone at what comes out in these blogs. I really do think sometimes God takes over and speaks through me. Usually, it’s me writing to myself reminders of what I already knew but needed to hear (or to read) again. I figure if I need it, then maybe someone else does, too.

I don’t write with expectations of having a multitude of readers. Numbers are nice, but also deceiving at times. I write for me, I write for God, and I write for that one person who needs encouragement that day. I try to write every day, whether I “feel” it or not.

Tonight on my way home from a friend’s house, I had Tori Amos playing in the car and felt the warm night air from the vents blowing over me. It was a good moment. I’d say it was even a spiritual moment where I was again reminded that life is the little things that we don’t ever plan for or expect, that just happen randomly, and we miss them if we’re too preoccupied with the past or the future.

I’d say the past is past. You can’t ever go back to fix or change it. The future is not yet, and my worrying and fretting over it won’t change what is to come. So live in the now. Be in the moment. Wherever you are, be all there and enjoy all of it.

Wow. I didn’t expect to go all spiritual life coach on you, but like I said, I never know what to expect when I blog. Except for catharsis and healing and the hopes that one person will be touched and blessed. If 9,999 others are touched and blessed as well, I am fine with that. But I am happy with just the one.

Even if that one is me.