First Confession: I Hate Blogs

I hate introductory posts.  The "Hello's" and "Welcomes," with just grand ideas in the beginning, that never seem to pan out in the end.  Really I hate blogging.  Hate having to be witty or brilliant so that others might find what I am saying as interesting. But I want a way to write out my thoughts, thoughts about who God is and who I am and how sometimes I fail, but He never does.  I want a place to be real, that it might bring someone a little spark of hope, in a world that is anything but hopeful sometimes. 

"Dark, but lovely," comes from Song of Solomon 1:5, where the maiden says that her skin is dark from having to shepherd her flocks, but she says that she is still lovely.  I love this verse because I think that it shows who we really are.  We are "dark," we are windblown and sunburned from a world that only beats us down, but we are lovely because we are loved by a Savior who didn't see us as our failures.  Our beloved see us as lovely and so we are lovely. 

I guess this is just a way to say... "Here I a world, imperfect, but perfectly loved... Dark, but lovely."