Blogging Beginnings

Greetings and welcome to my blog. I appreciate your time to stop by and peek around at what is going on in my life as of last. If you didn't know, my name is Crystal Woodford. A good friend of mine actually encouraged me to start up a blog. I thought about it and decided, "Yes. It would be good to share my life's journey's with others, because my journey's may help the life journey's of another." I'm all about making life count and leaving a mark so, here goes! To introduce myself, I am a 27 year old woman with lots of dreams and hopes for what I would have my life look like. As of late, I am taking a look at my life and wondering, "Hmm...this is definitely not what I was thinking I'd be doing with my life at 27." A bit of a quarter of a life crisis statement, don't you think? Soooo, life...wow. There is so much to be said about life and actually, that is what this blog is going to consist of is chatting about life. I love connecting with people and find that whoever you are or I am, somehow we are connected through experiencing life. It might not be the same life. Yours may be much more difficult than mine---but regards of the specific circumstance, we both experience the happy, the sad, the pain, the confusion and the regret of the day. And by this, I find that somehow, we can choose to be connected, and choose to be a community of individuals who strive to leave eachother's presence better than when we entered it. So please, as you enter my life, bring with you your day-the pain, the happy, the joy or just the mundane. Experience here with me you day and my hope is that you would leave my presence here within this blog better. So, I've mentioned the word "day" in the previous paragraph a few times. Essentially, life consists of days, days hours, hours mins...you get the picture. Lately, in regards to my days, I wonder this, "How can one day be so lovely and then the next, so dreadful?" And why is it that the lovely days are all too short and those ikcy days, those days you want to yell in frustration at each sec of every moment, why do those days last so long? I've pondered on this. Is it my perspective on my circumstances? Do I just have such a poor perspective on the secs of the mins of the hours of my days that the icky lasts much longer than the lovely? As of late....I feel like my days have been so utterly congested with frustration, heart ache and feeling so "stuck" with where I'm at, that all I see is the ick. Now, don't get me wrong, there have most definitely been the lovely within the ick---and I praise God for that because if there was not, then I would most likely be on some anti-depressant! And to continue to speak of God and perspective on life---I have consistently encountered from Him this idea of "transformation of the mind." Do you know how difficult it is to transform thoughts?!?! But with that, do you know important it is to allow God to transform our thoughts? Critical for survival. And all I can say about that is that when it comes to me allowing transformation to happen within my mind...as of late...well, let's just say, I should be considered in critical condition... With that said, I'm going to let this digest for a bit...and plan to carry on my thoughts about perspective, mind transformation, my mind being in critical condition and this notion of seeing hopefully my days as more lovely than the current ick. So, with this said, I bid you a goodnight and look forward to chatting about what's going on later:)