Journaling

I was reminded by an article yesterday how important journaling can be. God told Jeremiah to write the words He gave to him in a book. People who have kept a journal since young adulthood can testify of it's power to strengthen their faith. I am usually humbled and stirred to gratitude when I reread my journals. Sadly, over the last decade my handwritten entries have been reduced to attempts to recapture a birth story or a milestone birthday of an older child. Some of my favorite entries are prayer requests. It is so easy to see the hand of God years later. It always brings me to tears to realize that I had forgotten the prayer requests, but clearly He had not! Likewise, copying verses and meditating on them has truly blessed me.