"Bear Testimony and Live It"

At this time every year, for the last two or three years, I think to myself, "I should start a blog." I have so many things I want to record and share with the important people in my life. Yet, year after year goes by and still there is no Sork blog. So what's been stopping me? Well, there are a few things:

First is the time factor. How in the world am I going to keep a blog up to date? According to my scrapbooks McKenna is still 1 and Tanner is years away from High School. I finally took all my stamping supplies over to my neighbor and told her to enjoy them because they were just taking up space and collecting dust at my house. My hobbies now are trying to keep up with my kids, dating my husband and occasionally riding my bike. Where does a blog fit into that schedule?

Then there is the question, "Do I really have anything important enough to say?" I write in a journal to better understand myself and my feelings. I use it to record my important impressions. Occasionally I pull these journals out to read and remind myself of the things that are most important. I review the lessons I've learned long enough to realize I am still trying to learn them and then shove the journal back under the bed or up in the attic. When I am dead and gone I hope someone will find them and remember me, but these things are not really blog material. What would I fill a blog with?

Elder Bednar, in the last general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said we should "bear testimony and live it." Well, here it is a record of my testimony - not shoved under the bed or up in the attic (though that will probably still happen for the really juicy stuff) but evidenced in a blog through the life I live, pictures and thoughts included. (Sounds like a journal and scrapbook in one - should cut down on time, right?)