My type of Journal

I have always had good intentions of keeping a journal. I have a ton of very cute notebooks with a couple days or a month or two of journal entries but never a full journal. I love to go back and read the entries and go back to what my life was at that certain time. Sometimes I laugh at how big of a deal I made over certain things and sometimes I cry over the events that took place. Either way I love to see how God has molded and changed me in the past several years. This January I had every notion to keep a journal. I had just turned 25 and thought it would be cool to record this pivitol year in my life. I knew that this commitment would be a little much for me and I would probably only have the month of Jaunary in the journal but I was determined to follow through. While I was reading one of the many blogs I read, I came accross a really neat journal idea. It is a one sentence journal for each day.

I got a cute basket from the $1 Store
Cut Notecard in half and put the date on all 365 notecards
Then I found old thank you cards and cut the front of them to divide the months
Finally I started Journaling

Each night I write 2011: And whatever happened that day

Sometimes it is a simple verse that I came accross that day, other days I write about an event that happened, like my best friend telling me she is pregnant or getting an email that changed the course of my life and other days I simply put that I was really tired that day and needed an extra cup of coffee.

The neat thing about this journal is that I will have room to put entries from 2012, 2013 and possibly 2014 how cool will it be to look back and see how different or similar each day was a year or two or three ago. I have already gone back and read January's entries and am amazed at what God has done in my life in just 3 months.

So I encourage you, if you like to journal but just don't have the time or committment to journaling try it this way. It is fun, simple and I assure you, you will never have a problem thinking of something to write.