Why are you reading my blog? I’ve been wondering this for a while as I’ve been contemplating material for blog posts. With a wealth of life experience and a willingness to share, I have something to offer the world. But it’s not the world I expect to read my blog, it’s you. I offer myself to the world in pursuit of you – the reader who identifies with pieces of my life, as articulated in individual blog posts. I want to give a gift of openness from a sincere heart and thoughtful mind to whoever seeks, needs and/or appreciates such a gift. They say it is better to give than to receive. It’s pretty simple. That’s why I write here.
If anything I’ve written has provoked any level of connection, encouragement, comfort, hope, healing or growth in just one reader, it’s also brought the same to me. I write from my heart – real, raw and honest. This is the gift – a vulnerable view beneath the surface of a woman on a journey. I write what I wish I would have found and read at different times in my life.
My blog is not for everyone. It’s not a blog with mass appeal. It’s just for you – the reader who finds a blog post that 
speaks to you in some beneficial way. You are exactly who I had hoped to read my blog when I started writing it. Unless you’ve lived a life uncannily parallel to mine, you probably won’t find every blog post I write to be of value to you. And unless you’re a family member or friend with a particular interest in all of my life, you will probably only visit here once or twice. This is contrary to so much of what I’ve been taught about blogging, yet it’s not at all contrary to my personal goals in writing here.
I have come to seek the reader who only visits once or twice as much as the regular reader. When a woman is dealing with the heartbreak of infidelity, abandonment, divorce or domestic violence, I hope a Google search will land her on “My Season in the Darkness of Domestic Violence” or “When Your Husband Leaves You for Another Woman.” Or when someone is anguishing over guilt and remorse of betraying a friend, I hope a Google search result returns “The Gift.” I write as an outpouring of my heart. When what I write resonates with another person, the human connection is made. And that is the desire of my heart in this blog.
My point? I write for you. So tell me, why do you read?
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