We Learn Along the Way

There are so many ways in which we grow in wisdom with time, but I'm particularly going to focus on a silly type of wisdom today, which is the wisdom of blogging. I started this blog in 2004 after my sister passed away in a car accident. I used the blog as a therapeutic thing of sorts - to vent, grieve and weep via my computer. It was such a helpful thing and I'm glad that I started it. Today I was looking back through my blog posts and read a comment from a lady whom I'd never met. She had lost her brother from suicide the same year and her father was battling illness. I checked out her blog and was so encouraged to read her words of healing, biblical truth and to share her pain of such profound loss. I was so thankful that I could look back on her blog and read from the beginning, when she'd first loss her brother, to the recent present as she continues to heal. I would like to hope that my blog could provide the same comfort for someone experiencing loss...only, I remembered that I deleted a bunch of my posts. What was I thinking?! When I was creating my album and put my blog address in the cover I thought that some of the posts might be too personal, so I deleted a bunch of the posts dealing with my sister's death and my dad's illness. Don't be alarmed, I do have paper copies of these posts, but why in the world did I think it was a good idea to delete them from the blog itself and why didn't I save them on a drive somewhere instead of just printing out paper copies. Now, if somebody wants to go back to read my story to be encouraged through learning about how I've grown through my grief, there's no record. Well, there's nothing I can do about it...well, I guess I could retype all those posts, but that would take A LONG time! Once again, using the blog to vent...frustrated that I didn't know then, what I know now.