...Is to decide to take the step itself. That is the actual thing, preceded by so many other little things--the preparatory stage vital to any endeavor.
It is in the preparatory stage that questions are first raised, and, hopefully, answered: why must I do this? If it's not something I actually have to do, why would I want to do it anyway? How does this fall into the general scheme of things that I call my life? What do I hope to achieve with this? How will this make me thankful--moments, days, a decade from now--that I actually went into this in the first place?
How will this help bring me one step closer to the person God meant me to become? (Or, conversely, how might this step actually take me farther away from that, and closer instead to becoming someone I may eventually regret turning into?)
Thus, for me, I have begun blogging, officially, today. Because I've looked at my life--as wife, mom to a nine-year-old, and soon to become mom to an infant; as a writer, gifted with, burdened by, enamored with words--and decided: the Internet can stand the addition of another voice. But not just more noise added to an oftentimes-chaotic digital Babel. But, God willing, a soft soothing whisper of wisdom on the worldwide web.
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