Emily is Smiling

Today's quote is by Vita Sackville-West.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.

This is one of the reasons I love blogging so much.  When I look over my blog entries from the last two years, I am able to remember things I wouldn't have remembered otherwise.  I catch glimpses of the problems I once struggled with, the victories I experienced, the moments of revelation I felt with the Lord.  I can see that I came through a difficult time or a dry spell then, so I surely can again now.  I remember days with my loved ones, the excitement of getting a puppy or finishing a great book, what inspired me, and what broke my heart.

My blog has become my journal in a lot of ways.  While I will still journal occasionally, I don't think anything has captured my life in a butterfly net more than this blog has over the last two years.

Do you have a blog?