The Wise, Wilson Women

        I know I already wrote an entry for today but this one, kind of, goes along with it or that is what I would like to think. I think or I know that I got blessed with the best women a girl could ask for. Those women are her grandmas and mom and a friend. I want to dedicated this entry to both of my grandmas because one just recently passed away and the other grandma passed away but it is her birthday next month. I think in two weeks if I'm not mistaken.
         I love the title for this entry because I could call it the 3 Ws-Wise, Wilson Women. Creative, huh? Anyways, this entry came to mind as I was sitting in my Bible study tonight and we were talking about personal Spiritual growth. I have always grown up in a Godly/spiritual home because my mom and dad were believers. I got baptized at a very young age-the age of 9 years old. That in itself is a blessing for me that I should never regret at all. That is not what I saw in the Bible study tonight that made me write this entry though.
          What I saw and thought about in my Bible study is how I spend my time with God, my personal time with the Creator. I did tear up a little but no one saw because they were watching the movie. I'm a very loving, nurturing, and careful person. I get the "loving children" part from all of them plus wanting to stay at home but that is not the point of this entry. Although, most of the people that know me would agree with me and I get that from my mom, grandmas, and a special friend of mine.
          What I have noticed lately, especially after my recent grandma passed away is that I'm a journaler /blogger/dairy keeper because of them. My grandma that just passed away kept her journals throughout the years just like I started to while I was in college and still am. I can even say that I have some journals way back during college times and some of them are pretty funny. The journals are mainly prayer and Bible verses journals now that I have gotten older but it didn't start out that way. I started out in that way while I was in college but I really started out in high school. I started to write in a diary because I needed a place to vent my feelings that I couldn't talk about to anyone else. I do remember having a little journal through when I was younger and I still have it in keepsakes. I have looked at it since I have gotten older and it was during my soccer days because the only entry in it is one about soccer.
          Not only did my grandma keep prayer journals but she kept her sermon notes and journals so I also get my sermon note taking from her too. My aunt gave me a notebook of my grandma's sermon notes and even though they are hard to read, they really mean a lot to me. I even have a small Bible from her that has hand written notes in the margins. I think more then anything, through, my grandma passed it on to my mom and that is really where I see it. I see her taking notes during the sermons at church. I see her prayer journal laying around the house and she just started a drawing nature journal, something I could never do or at least not now.
           I am also big on keeping vacation journals and that started very young too to trips to Montana (aka my favorite place in the world). No matter where I go now I buy a notebook just for that trip and write about everyday. It is just fun to look back on those journals and notebooks and see what God has taught you or even done for you. Like my vacation journals, they are for memory because someday I won't get those chances anymore.
         Even like this blog, being in AR might be for a short time you never know so I'm writing about it here and now. I will say, though, this is like my 3rd blog I have started since moving to AR and I have kept up with this one the best. Out of my whole life, though, this is the 4th or 5th blog that I have had. It is strange that something this simpler can run in a family but it does and it is a good thing if you really think about it. If you journal for the right things are reasons, it can show you God all over again and remind you of what He has done for you and how He has blessed you through out the years.
           I will admit there are some college prayer journals that I have looked back on and I just laugh at what I was thinking and praying about back then. They show you how much you have grown too. I mean there are all these plans that I made out in college but God had a much better plan then I could ever think of. There was this guy I had a crush on and now I go back to read it and I just laugh and think how bad I was crushing on him. I'll admit there are some funny ones but yet there are those ones that you read and think, "Wow, God did you really do all of this." and I know I have some now that I will look back on and reread and think that again.
          There are other types of journals I keep too. If there is a subject I like or need to write my feelings out then I grab a notebook or journal, depending on how important the subject is and I'll write about it. Why do I think this is so neat? I think it is because in Bible study, tonight, we talked about having a journal to keep our prayers in and what God has taught us in. To me, though, it seemed like second nature and I thought to myself, "well, doesn't everyone do this if they are a Christian." and the answer is, "no". I got to thinking, "how can you not keep a journal of all the glorious things God has done or will do for you?"
            This one thing is just an example of a little action, that if you start doing, might grow throughout generations. In a strange way, it has in my family.