Memories, Musings, and Meditations

Facebook and Twitter etc most often show just our highlights. We put our best foot forward and share our happiest moments and our sweet successes. But how often do we share our problems and our life challenges?

Sharing our problems and challenges is hard on social media. Maybe that’s because it can be impersonal. Maybe it’s too public. Not many people are comfortable being vulnerable with 500+ people.

The problem with not sharing these things is that to the observer our life looks easy. We have no problems. We have the perfect life and the perfect family with lots of holidays and adventures etc. The reader can become envious and disillusioned with their own life, filled with trials and tribulations.

Can I challenge you to be brave? Can I challenge you not just to share the good, but to at least share some of the challenges? After all, the challenges of our life are what grow us. They make us stronger and hopefully better people if we allow God to mould us through them. You don’t have to share everything tough, but maybe some of it, just to balance out your highlights reel.

I will try to lead by example.

Thanks for reading.

Jenni

While at university, I majored in the School of Religion and minored in Creative Writing. Unfortunately I have done very little writing since. I have been busy; first with jobs and Christian ministry commitments, and then with motherhood. However, as life has progressed I have been sensing a call on my heart to begin to journal the highs and the lows of everyday life. There are so many lessons and memories that ought to be remembered and reflected upon, and so many things that God is teaching me personally, both through the challenges I face and also through His Word. In the Bible we read:

“Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben–ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.”
1 Samuel 7:12

This blog is my feeble attempt to set up memorials of how God has helped and is helping me in life’s many challenges. I hope that sharing may help and encourage others, because “we read to know we are not alone” (William Nicholson).

Jenni