The Smith Collections

For the past few weeks I have felt many promptings to begin a journal. More so than ever, this calling to record the moments passing is ever bidding me. Life as a mother is busy and beautiful, fun, exhausting, and highly entertaining...most days. This space is simply a place to record our journey. I have never really been a journal keeper but I see the importance now as I raise my family. My hope is that this journal, will at sometime, maybe when I am long gone, serve as a road map for those that read it. I hope my children and children’s children and so forth can look to these writings for encouragement and strength in a world that seems to grow increasingly dark. I hope to communicate an authentic record of my life, including the not so pretty or kind moments. There are many. But I believe that those moments in life give us the opportunity to move from good to great. It's in the refiner's fire that we are made pure gold. I hope that my children might think of me amidst their own fire and feel that they are not alone, I am with them, I am helping, cheering, and loving them along the way. I hope my story can bring light to those who might find themselves on similar paths and help to navigate the way. And if nothing else remind them that change is possible, God is real and all you have to do is ask.