YOU ARE A WRITER

Your life is a journal of many entries.
You are the one who determines
what is recorded therein.
The events of each day
may not always be those of your choosing,
but your response to all that is
will often have greater influence
in your own life
and the lives of those around
than will the actual events.
Know that the pages of your journal
will be read by those presently a part of your life
and those of future generations.

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I wonder if the journals of Adam and Eve
would be any different
had they known that
they were writing for all to read?
I wonder how many, in making their entries,
considered the far-reaching effect
of their “journaling”
on future generations?

In the Bible we read from the journals of many:
Abraham and Lot, Jacob, Joseph,
the Pharoah of Egypt,
Moses, David, Goliath,
Naomi and Ruth,
Esther, Nebuchanezzar, Daniel,
Joseph and Mary, King Herod,
JESUS,
Andrew, Peter, John,
a lad with the lunch of five loaves and two fish,
Martha and Mary,
Caiaphas,
Barnabas, Paul, and Lydia.

I pray that the entries you make
in your life journal
throughout the coming year
will be ones that you can look back on
without regret.

Twila Charles Leichty
January 30, 2010