Saying
good-bye is sometimes tough, even when it's the right thing to do.
When
this particular blog began several years ago, I had several goals:
to share my own journey along the path of renewed faith that inspired
it; to encourage people that they were loved and that they mattered
and that they had a purpose in the earth; and to be a forum for
writing about my own thoughts and struggles and journeys as a truck
driver living on the road (much as my original blog, Lonesome Dove
Expressions, did).
Back
then, blogging was still relevant, Facebook was just beginning, and I
felt like it might be a useful tool for helping people and an
enjoyable experiment for myself as an outlet for my own writing.
There has always been a small core of regular readers, some of whom
started with the original blog back in 2007, but as Facebook became
more of a fixture in our lives, and I began to share most
of whatever I chose to write
there, this blog sort of went
the way of the cassette-tape player and Mister
Microphone (“Hey, good-lookin', we'll be back to pick you up
later!”).
For
a while now, I've been wondering whether this blog has served its
purpose, and now, at the end of one year on the cusp of beginning a
new one, it seems an appropriate time for a last good-bye here. I've
had fun, I hope you've enjoyed reading when you have, and perhaps
we'll meet again somewhere else.
For
now, I leave you with this reminder, and hope you will take it
to heart: you are loved, you
matter, you have a purpose.
Thanks
for sharing this part of the journey with me. Love and peace to all.
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