Missing the Blog

I really like this blog.  I don't know why, but I just do.  I LOVE to journal and although I am still keep my journal close to my side, this blog has been another therapeutic form of journaling for me.  I love posting what I am up to or what I am learning and then looking back at it several months later and remembering that place.   It may be a boring blog to others, but i have enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would.   All that to say, I have really missed my blog lately.  I feel like my posts have been short and  shallow.   My life has been pretty fast paced this summer.  It is August and it feels like summer just began.  I know life seems to always go by fast, but the last little bit has felt like lightening speed.

 It has become clear to me lately that I really need time to process things.  I need time to process if you have me a question or my opinion on something.  I need time to process before I make a decision.  I need time to process my life, my thoughts, my feelings.   I think that is why journaling is such a vital part of my life.  It hit me today that I really have not had time (or taken the time) to really process my life lately.  I had the opportunity to lead a mission's trip to Mexico and it was so incredibly impactful for me, yet I have barely "debriefed" since I have been home.  I have barely told anyone the details of what we did or what I learned.  My job has been crazy lately with multiple VBS's and me taking on the challenge of planning and directing our first ever VBS for pre-schoolers.  Life has just been busy.  And as I think about my life this summer I have thought about all the things I want to blog about.   And sooooooo.......since I love to make list I decided to make a list on this blog of all the things I want to blog about.  And then just maybe that will hold me accountable to actually do so  I am not sure when all the blogging of these topics will take place.   As I think about how busy my summer has been I don't really see it slowing down anytime soon.  I am going away for a couple days this weekend with some friends to stay with another friend in the Hamptons.  I come back for a week and a half and then leave for for my marathon vacation(hitting up 4 states in 10 days) And then when I come back it is Labor Day and fall begins!  And let's be honest, fall is the busy.  That is the life of Bethany in a nutshell.
So here are the things I am dying to blog about....

• My Mexico Trip (amazing!)
• My first VBS to direct
• My mom's week long stay in NYC (she came to help with VBS)
• My trips to the beach
• What I am learning through the 2 books I am reading "Bold Love" and "Plan B"
• My relationship with New York City
• What I am learning about the Lord! (so broad I know)
• Summer in the city

Those are so random and I am sure there is more. haha!  I hope to hit up the blog more in the next days and weeks and play "catch up", we will see if that happens.