My Letter to You

Tomorrow I wrap up the highlights of December here on Bekah's Bits...and Sunday dawns a new day, week, and year. The OCD in me loves it when a new year falls on the same day as a new week. It's perfection.

Several years ago, my friend Jim said to me, "Hey Bekah. You should blog." I looked at him as though he'd just said, "Hey Bekah, you should jump out of an airplane without a parachute."

The thought of perfect strangers reading my work...reading my life...made me absolutely hyperventilate. The avid CSI watcher in me envisioned no less than a mini-series of reasons why this was a recipe for being written into the show (and not on the detective end of things).

Jim was so adamant about my need to blog that he created the blog for me. He came into my office one day and said, "Here's the name, the login and the password. Blog."

Gulp.

And so I did. Those first posts were painfully scripted, guarded, and read 18 times (by me) to make sure they couldn't possibly get me killed. My 18 reads probably tripled the amount of actual out-there readers who read them. HA!

My first (or one of the first, anyway) comments was from a woman who blasted me for getting my cats declawed. Welcome to blogging!

But over the years, I've relaxed and you've arrived here at Bekah's Bits. I know who some of you are. I have gotten to know others of you through this journey, and what sweet friends you've become. I have no idea who others of you are, though I often wonder who lurks and reads.

You've walked with me through hard journeys, like the tornado and the desret. You've celebrated with me in the good times, which are truly too numerous to list in one post. You've prayed for and with me. You've tried some of the recipes. You've left comments now and then to say this bit of heart-vulnerability or that verse or song got to you on the right day, proving that God works through things like the blog of a very flawed girl.

You've laughed with me (and probably AT me, but let's focus on the WITH, mmmkay?) and cried with me too. I still probably outdid you on the tears, but I love it when you join me anyway.

As I head into a new year, I'm making a lot of changes in my life. Some things have to go. Some things have to come in. But I'm sticking with the blog. Other than the cosmetic updates, it's not getting much change. I like it just the way it is. I hope you'll stay with me. I hope you'll keep reading, laughing, crying, learning, and yes, even rolling your eyes.

I was a skeptic, forced to try this thing, but you've made me feel loved and accepted. Thank you. I'm glad you're part of Bekah's Bits. Stay with me? Let's do another year together?