For sometime, I’ve been talking to people about the importance of keeping a journal.\u00a0 I even encourage it during some of my Sunday morning messages, as well, because I think it’s a way for us to record what we’re going through and be able to look back and see how we’ve grown, what God has been teaching and what we’ve learned.<\/p>\n
The reality is that keeping a journal is challenging for a number of reasons: First, it takes time…and really, who has an abundance of that stuff laying around?\u00a0 My view is, though, that if you have time to live it, you should be able to find enough to write about it.\u00a0 Did that make sense?\u00a0 Maybe not, but I hope you get my drift.\u00a0 Secondly, it’s revealing.\u00a0 It’s hard to lay it out there in black and white and “reveal yourself” on paper.\u00a0 I get that.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s embarrassing for US to read it, much less anybody else.\u00a0 Still, if we don’t put it down there, we will rarely see the flaws in our thinking and the mistakes in our living.\u00a0 It’s necessary to examine our lives to see how to keep from duplicating our mistakes.<\/p>\n
There are many things that God has taught me that I’ve forgotten.\u00a0 You, too?\u00a0 What I’ve found, though, is when I take the time to WRITE THEM DOWN, strangely, I tend to remember.\u00a0 Sometimes, I get little surprise lessons as I’ve even forgotten what I wrote and then go back later and re-read and get the chance to learn all over again.\u00a0 Bonus!<\/p>\n