A Commitment to Write

Frustrated with my inconsistencies in updating this blog, I tried numerous attempts to click the [delete blog] button, transfer to a new hosting site, and create a brand-new blog. My legalistic efforts however, did not succeed, and this precious little blog of mine survived to this day.

This is an old blog marred with the failure of irregular updates. Thus, I have given it the look, the name, and the feel of a new-born blog to help me make a fresh commitment to blogging. Not just a commitment to update regularly, but a commitment to responsible, disciplined blogging that is careful with each word. I want to choose words that heal, encourage, and inspire. Maybe they will hurt at first, but they will be loving words from a rebuking friend. I want to choose words that best express how I feel and best explain an idea that can easily be understood. I simply want to be a writer. I want to learn how to write. Thus, a commitment to write.

And I hope this blog will encourage and inspire not just people with the same nationality, beliefs, or interests as I, but people from other religions and cultures as well.

I was inspired to make this new commitment to writing from my Advanced Composition class, which I took up just this year. Our professor read one of our classmates’ compositions to the class. The ideas flowed naturally from one to the other without any awkward gaps between them, and it was written in a simple, direct, but creative way. Our professor noted, “Although it is still a first draft, there are not much erasures.” I was challenged. I now wanted to become a real writer who is passionate about writing. In writing this new commitment with digital indelible ink, I have just embarked on the writing adventure. I expect many trials to come my way to test my commitment and love. ♥

This is not my first blog, but it will be my last. I will not write about empty, trivial things for the sake of updating, but perhaps insights about little unnoticed details in life. I will write about things God taught me in the past and is teaching me at present. I would like to write carefully constructed articles this time. I would like to be a disciplined writer who writes not for the sake of carelessly venting out her emotions [a journal would be a better place], but for the good of other people. What’s important is that each post pleases God. I pray every post I write will point people back to the Giver and Sustainer of life, and that is God.