Four months ago when I began "writing" this blog called More Than Today, I personally hoped that it would be a way for me to develop my writing abilities and have a place to share my writing with others. But as those of you who have read this know, what it has turned out to be is a collection of my past writings (perhaps you didn't know how past they were) and some excerpts from my current readings. Nothing wrong with that, some of you have even found it helpful...and for that I am glad.

But it still hasn't become what I envisioned. Last night on TV I was reading an interesting novel while watching the TV show "Ed" ... doing both and also leaving for awhile to pick up a daughter after her youth group. From what I caught of the TV program, Ed's fiance Carol was writing a novel because she wanted to be a writer and get an agent to look at her work, which was pretty non-existent. She was having trouble writing and didn't know why. Then a friend of her's told her it was because she wasn't being honest and writing about what she knew about.

That struck me as true of myself. I have wanted for years to write and have been told by a few people that I have a gift for writing. But I have put it off in the middle of everyday life because there was always something more pressing. Perhaps I have also put it off because to write about what is at the core of my being, at my very soul, would mean to be honest and just lay it out there for others to see. My life, my writing, my hopes and dreams expressed through characters coming to life on a page and then in the imagination of the reader.

I would know what comes from my real life, past experiences, people I have known, but others would not and might change their view of me. But to write means to put it out there and seek to touch another's life...which is, after all, what I have spent my life endeavoring to do.

So here goes. Read, like some of it, pass by other parts, be encouraged, get mad, be changed, be touched.

More "thoughts concerning life, faith, today, and forever" coming up right here in "More Than Today." Oh...I guess I've already started with this one today.

Thanks Carol Vessey and Ed and friend. And they say there's nothing good on TV anymore!