Easter

I've broken the cardinal rule of blogging already (the "write consistently" one). My excuse - I had an emotionally exhausting week. A good week when it all comes down to it, but a tough one nonetheless. It feels so appropriate that it was during Holy Week, too. Easter comes and our hope is restored. He is making all things new.

Model Blogs

I still don't have a clear picture of what I want to put here, although it is coming along a little better than 24 hours ago when I created this blog.

To get some ideas, I thought about the elements of the blogs I really love. I follow lots of blogs, but the two I have on the sidebar right now are my favorites.

Chatting at the Sky

This blog is so full of grace - grace for the everyday, grace for challenges, grace like God gives. Some blogs I've seen seem to idolize "simplicity" and "thankfulness" without seeing them within a bigger picture of God's greatness. This blog puts these things into perspective. The simplicity here is a simplicity of childlike faith, not anti-consumerist simplicity-for-simplicity's-sake. The thankfulness here is thankfulness to a Creator, not to creation itself.

The latest entry - for your weekend - reminds me of the perfect spring weekend, especially the ones from when I was much much younger.

Like Mother, Like Daughter

I love love love love this blog. Love it. A lot of the content isn't yet applicable to my life (e.g. homemaking, child raising, homeschooling, etc.) but it is still so wonderful to read because it is incredibly encouraging. There is grace here, too. Grace to love God, raise a family and enjoy life in a purposeful, yet unhurried way. Someday this blog will be a great help to me. Right now it is a great model of contentment.

I would love if my blog could do a little bit of what these blogs do - express contentment and joy with where I am. Is this going to turn into a grad school blog? Maybe. I'll probably discuss some of that here, but I doubt that will be my focus. Still thinking...

Lack of planning...

As soon as I hit that "Create Blog" button and was asked to name my blog, I knew I was in trouble. Making this blog was sort of a spur of the moment decision. I've been vacillating for a while about whether or not I want to blog. I guess the answer is "Yes." But now what? I have no plan, no concept, few ideas... I don't even really know what I was trying to get at with that title - "Abstract Adventure." It's supposed to have something to do with the contemplation of the "adventure" of life. What that means concretely (see what I did there?), I don't yet know. Stay tuned...