Drum Roll Please...

Hello dear readers!

I have wanted to start my own blog for a very long time, so here I am fast approaching the start of a new year and ready to move forward with accomplishing fresh goals and dreams :) Welcome and thank you for dropping in. I hope this is not only a way for me to express myself and get my thoughts and feelings out but is also something that you (my reader) can enjoy reading, relating to and sharing in my hearts song.

My first dilemma in starting this thing was coming up with and settling on a name I liked. As I thought about it...I began to reminisce about well, myself. Ever since I was a child I felt very strongly on just about everything and with that came a sense of loving others fully and completely. My mom used to always tell me she loved me with her whole heart. I remember one night as she tucked me into bed, I asked her something to the effect of "Mommy, what if I love you with my whole heart and love Jesus with my whole heart and love others with my whole heart...can I have more than one heart?" I didn't want to say back that I loved her with my whole heart when I felt that I loved God and others in my life just as much. From that train of thought, I figured that I must have more than one heart because of the love I felt I had within me.

So...years and years later...though I understand I can not literally have more than one heart, I still feel that the Lord has gifted me with (figuratively speaking) many hearts with which to love others fully. Albeit that with this gift has come much heartbreak and pain along the way and my once full hearts, are now and often more like broken pieces, that often get trampled upon along the way. Yet my ability to love fully and completely remains by God's grace (for it is really not my love to give in the first place). I can only love because He first loved me.

Along with this gift of love is a passion and joy for the arts, especially that of song. Music has always been a part of me for as long as I can remember. Maybe it's because it runs in the blood (both grandparents on both sides of my family were musically inclined), or because my mom sang to me since I was born....all I know is that music is the one thing that speaks to me more than anything or anyone else can. I realize that I am not the best singer in the world or even the next American Idol, by any means, but I can carry a tune at the least.

And there you have it....my blog found it's name and I can now share my hearts song with the world (or at least the worldwide web space we call the internet)! I am excited to start this new journey and see where it leads and where my still open ended future may take me. I have so many hopes, desires, dreams and goals (resolutions for 2011 coming up soon) set before me and I anticipate looking back through my tracks one day and marveling at what God has done. Let's taste and see what the Lord has and will do, shall we? I'm all in this blog with nothing to lose and this hearts song is ready to sing :)