For the coming months, I will be asking questions and gathering information for a couple of "projects" that I will be working on and would really love & appreciate your comments...so please, "tell what you think"...about JOURNALING.
For me personally, I love to journal. Whether it be detailed & specific information about a certain picture or event, or maybe just what I feel as I look at the picture.
on this page that I just did ( that spurred this little late night post) I just really wrote what my feelings were as I looked at this picture (and the month, place & year). I do it for me, my family & for my children, and my children's children..and so on.
I had a conversation with a couple of women today as they were scrap booking and they have INCREDIBLE pages, and LOTS of them...but there was no journaling. I asked them why they did not journal, and instead of answering at first, they came back to me with the question of "What can't they get from just the pictures??" This subject and the response pretty much consumed my mind for the rest of the entire day....I'd agree that there are definitely some pictures are just simply worth a million words...without using a single word. (It reminds me of the picture Ali Edwards posted last week of her son waving at his dad from inside the house) and some themed pictures & pages like Easter, Halloween, Christmas are self explanatory, but what about some of those great one-liners or special moments, silly sayings and maybe even heart tugging never want to forget things...
like this: we took prayer requests at Good News Club on Thursday from the kids, and one was from a little girl whose mom had just had a baby, but the baby was SEVERAL weeks early...she talked about how he was in a special room at the hospital, in a special bed, and that he was two pounds and that he is a "premium" baby...that, my friends is a heart tugging moment that may mean nothing to anyone but that family, but is something that they will want to remember forever.
by the way, his name is Max and if you could keep him in your prayers that would be wonderful!
so again please, let me know your thoughts on this subject...why you do it, why you don't, how you do it, etc....
have a great rest of your weekend!