The Lovely Days

Hello, hello!

Since I left New York, I've more or less been on a blog hiatus.  I've posted here or there, but mostly I've just been... stagnant.  Part of me needed a breather.  Part of me has been running, running nonstop without many moments at a computer.  Part of me felt caught in the in-between, no longer in New York but not yet fully in Atlanta.

And still another part of me has been swirling around in fear and doubt.  What if you don't think my new life in Georgia is interesting?  What if it's not interesting?  What if I don't know how to blog about anything besides New York?

But here's the deal.  At the end of the day, I love to write.  I love to write emails, to write in my journal, to write thank-you notes and birthday cards, to write stories.  And I love to write my blog.  I am also really excited to be in Atlanta, and I'm excited about what's stirring in my life and where God might be taking me.  I am going to march forward with joy and courage and tamborines.

So that brings us here, to the point where I start something new, where I have a fresh start, and I send you to my new blog.  So without further adieu...

Head on over to The Lovely Days.

I toyed around with a variety of new titles.  Titles with train themes.  Home themes. Southern themes.  Sweet tea themes.  But when it came down to it - when I really thought about what blog 2.0 would be about - it wasn't just one thing.  It wasn't trains, or cities, or sugary beverages.  It was life.  The days of my life.  (The days of our lives?)  It's faith, and television, and Chick-fil-A, and my family, and Harry Potter, and shoes, and my friends, and trips.  It's about the stories that I encounter every day.  The stories I'm living, writing, observing and creating.  The stories that make life lovely.

I admit - I already miss Lulled by the Train.  This is not easy for me to do, to close up shop on the hot pink and black city skyline that has become almost an extension of who I am.  Thus, this post you are reading has been sitting waiting to be published for quite awhile now.  Even today, I am scared of the unknown.  I'm nervous about leaving sweet little Lulled by the Train and venturing into the unchartered territories of The Lovely Days.  But even with these apprehensions, I KNOW that God will be faithful, and that I am full of hope, and that there will be many more Ebenezers to come in this next season of life in Atlanta.

As Birdie said, I am daring to imagine that I can have a different life.  And even though I don't know exactly what this different life will look like, I am certain it will be lovely.


**NOTE:  If you would like to continue following my blog, please update your Google Reader feeds, bookmarks and links with the new address - http://thelovelydays.com/.  I will no longer be publishing to Lulled by the Train.**