On a Monday, August 27 in 2007, I wrote my first blogpost. Själaglad Blogg was born. "Why should one blog?" was the title.
"Why not?" I asked myself. I like to try new things and to express myself with words, and I think it is nice to have others reading and commenting what I write. So I started a new journey of sharing my thoughts and my daily life with friends and people I didn't know.
I wrote because I needed a place to write from my heart. I was moving towards a divorce.
I wrote because I needed clarity. I wrote because it was a way to share what was going on in my family's life, to answer all the questions from friends and relatives.
I wrote because I am a writer and I write to heal, to understand, to communicate, to share wisdom, to express my thoughts and feelings, to inspire, to leave things behind, to let go, to move forward, to break through, and sometimes just because I can and I want to, and it can be fun.
I write mostly because ... Why not?
Ten years ago I left my marriage.
Ten years ago I took a leap of faith into an unknown future with God.
Ten years ago my words on this blog was all about me and my family.
Eleven years ago I hit my own daughter after an awful argument in our house.
Eleven years ago God came to my rescue.
Eleven years ago I started to draw pictures with God when I was lost and didn't know what to do.
It is time to move out from Själaglad (Happy in Spirit). She has been like a home. A safe (trygg) place for me to be vulnerable and authentic. To be me.
I have a new home now with less words and more pictures. To ways to communicate. To tender ways to say "this is me". To languages. My mother tongue and my Father's language. I need that to be free to be me.
Welcome to my new home: www.enbok.se
Please feel free to love what you see. Just click on the little heart. That is how you can comment and appreciate my work without words. And share it with the world if you want to.
I believe in the power of the spoken and written word. I believe in sharing our personal stories with each other. I believe in having a safe place to be vulnerable and authentic. I believe in "We are one body". So I invite others to do what I have done for ten years. To write a blogpost and share with the world. Welcome over to a global blog where you can find a new post every Saturday, sometimes in English and sometimes in Swedish. Maybe sometimes in pictures, videos and audios. Who knows, but God?
Welcome to the new beginning of a Global blog: www.healmyvoicesweden.com
I am moving. Leaving the old life behind. Embracing the new life with Christ. Now there is only one thing left to do: Praying for ease and grace.
Love,
Marie
