Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lent season. This year, I decided in addition to giving something up (caffeine - you've had your warning!), I'm going to do something I did 4 years ago, which is blog during the Lent season.
I used a different blog system then (you can check it out at kennybeasley.blogspot.com if you really want to). I decided to try this one for a couple of reasons. First, I wanted to see if this layout would be easier to maintain. Second, so much has changed in my life since that time. I was just really starting to branch out into what my faith meant to me on a personal level. (Looking back, I've realized that you never stop experiencing that - it just takes on different forms.)
At that time in my life, I was weeks away from finding out that we were expecting our first child. Amanda found out the same week that she got her hours cut at work. My mom started to really see a decline in her health - by the next year, she had passed away.
The struggles that I and my entire family faced in the time afterward were something I could never have predicted. However, the way that God brought us through those struggles is something that I also never could have imagined. He has given us so many blessings that I've lost count. We have a healthy and rambunctious baby girl who is now 3 years old and reminds me every day the beauty this world can offer. More importantly, she reminds me of the love of Jesus.
This first post is all over the map, which is pretty indicative of how my thoughts have been lately. Hopefully, I'll get that fixed over the course of this Lent season. Thanks for taking this journey with me!
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