Well,  I'm diving in to this blogging thing.  Web log.  Logging my thoughts on the web, I guess.  I'm thinking that the greatest benefit to this is accountability in my thinking.  I've always liked the idea of journaling (I loved reading some of the old lists, diaries, and notes that were found among my grandparents' things when they died).  But my handwriting is so shaky these days, this will be a better and faster way to get my thoughts organized.

Proverbs 25:11 says, "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver."  My grandmother had a small coffee table volume of quotes and sayings that was bound in a gold metallic binding with gold apples embossed on the cover.  In the 60's in Troy, Alabama, where she lived, there wasn't much to do, so I sat on her couch and read this from cover to cover.  I was hooked.  I have always loved "fitly spoken" words.  I just love words, period.  Maybe one of my blogs will just be about my favorites.

I believe that God's Word is the only Word that is fit for every occasion, circumstance, feeling, joy, or sorrow that I might have.   But God made us with all the paraphernalia for speech, for language and writing.  Language is a gift, and because it is a gift we are stewards of it.  My words should glorify the Lord.

I pray that as I attempt this "stewardship of words" that I can become more descriptive, thought-provoking, comforting, and encouraging to you, the reader.

Proverbs 25:4 says, "Take away the dross from the silver and the smith has material for a vessel; take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness."

I'm not working with silver but with words.  Perhaps this blog is the fire that will be used to refine my thoughts and words, bringing the dross and scum to the surface, leaving something useful behind.