Encouraged to Encourage

So I took an unintentional hiatus from blogging.  To be honest, I got discouraged.  I was starting to feel like the time I would take out of any given day to blog was not ending up being worth the sacrifice.  Who was I even reaching?  Why make my private life public?  Did people actually want to know my thoughts like I assumed they did?  So I stopped investing my time in this part of my online life and put it more into my offline one.

And then I got encouraged.

I was reminded of why I blog.  I make my thoughts, my experiences, my life available to the public because I want to encourage others like others have encouraged me.  I seek to be encouraged regularly so that I can be an encouragement myself.

However, being an encouragement doesn't mean I always have to be upbeat.  It doesn't mean the circumstances in my life have to always be favorable.  It doesn't mean I have to appear strong when I'm feeling weak.  But what I do think it means is that I'm honest and open when I think it may help someone else who's going through something similar; when I'm in the midst of a struggle, I look for a way it can make me a stronger person; when I'm wrong, I humbly admit it and apologize; when I fall down, I choose to get right back up; when I'm feeling empty, I know where to go to get refreshed.

A Field[s] Day is a place where I share both the good times wrapped up in my days of excitement and the bad times that I choose to see as my circumstances of opportunity, and whether you stumble upon this spot or it's a subscription of yours, may you find it to be an online oasis.