What Our 2-Year Anniversary Means to Me

Posted by Molly

When Adrienne told me this month was the blog's 2 year anniversary, I was so surprised.  It seems like just yesterday that she asked me to help write for it and we met to talk about our ideas with some of the other bloggers in my kitchen.

 Looking back, I have to ask myself - what has this experience meant to me?

Well, let me tell you, it has meant so much!


Writing for this blog has enabled me to really examine what my faith means to me and to have an outlet to share that with others.  It has brought me new friends who I cherish.  When you're writing for a blog, you don't know who is reading it so I just love it when people approach me at church events and say they have read my blogs.  Many of these people have become friends and I feel so lucky that this blog brought them into my life.

When you're writing about your faith, you have to do a lot of soul searching.  You have to dig into some pretty dark places to figure out how you got here and why your faith has made you better.  I was raised Catholic and I have always proudly considered myself a Catholic but there were some years when things were really bad in my personal life and I did not go to church regularly.  I didn't stop believing in Christ, but I stopped following the rules of the church and I stopped showing Him the respect that He deserves.  I used to look back on this time and think, I wasn't going to church because things were so awful - but writing for this blog has enabled me to realize that maybe things were so awful because I wasn't going to church.  Not to say, that if I had been more faithful then the more difficult events of my life would not have happened because a lot of them probably still would have - but I would have been able to get through those rough days with more ease and more grace had I stayed closer to God. 

When the clouds finally parted in my life and I rediscovered my faith, things did start to brighten.  When I look at the last decade, which has been quite wonderful to me, and I try to figure out what makes this time better than the previous ten years, I usually point to my husband and my two children.  Yes - they are wonderful, but I don't think they are what made the difference in my life.  I think the difference was God.  And I am so thankful for all He has given me.

I love our church and I think this blog, at least for me, is a way to make our community smaller and warmer and closer.  I am so grateful to everyone who reads it and to all the other writers who touch me with their words and their faith.  I feel honored to walk among you.

Happy Birthday Women of St Raphael Bloggers and Readers!