For My Posterity

Dear Posterity,

For many years I have thought about the importance of journal keeping. From my youth I have been encouraged to keep a record for my posterity. Over the years I have tried to figure out why anyone would want to read about my daily tasks. To me journal keeping was very mundane and pointless. I would jot down the things that I did during the day. A typical entry would be something like this...
                 
                  Dear Journal,
                  Today I went to work, ate a sandwich and came home. I watched a basketball
                  game, got yelled at for something stupid and now I am going to bed. Pretty
                  eventful day if you ask me.

Now you tell me who in the world is going to read that in 75 years and want to read more. I would use it for nothing more than fire starter so my journal keeping never lasted long. You are very welcome that I saved you from that torture. Journal keeping was nothing more that a waste of time to me and would have been to you. But something changed this week.

I was thinking about journal keeping when it finally hit me. Journal keeping isn't supposed to be a record of what you do daily but who you are. For journal keeping to be effective and worthwhile, I need to record things that give you in sight to who I am as a person, what I belive in, what I stand for and what I am like. You need to learn what I think like, how I percieve things and how I live. Ultimately, this is how you would get to know me and how we could have a relationship that will last into the eternities. I am doing this for you but who knows, maybe I will get something out of it in the long run.

The Book of Mormon prophet, Nephi, recording that the Lord commanded him to record two records. One the recorded the spiritual events and one the recorded the temporal events of his people. This account is found in 1st Nephi 9. I have decided to follow Nephi's example. I don't know if I will post everyday or every other day or twice a week but I will alternate posts when I do post. What I mean is one post will be spiritual based and the next will be temporal. This way you can get to know me on both levels throughout my life. After all this life is a time for us to experience both temporal and spiritual experiences and the challenge is to find a balance and merge both spiritual and temporal experiences to prepare us to return to our Heavenly Father.

To my future children, grand children, great grand children etc...I'm going to need your help for this to work. There will be days that I have no desire to blog and will need a little extra inspiration from on high. So if you already prompted me to start this please continue your promptings to keep me going. I'm not going to lie, there will be many days where you will have to prompt me extra hard. I aplogize in advance if I ignore your promptings but I am a very stubborn and hard headed person who prefers watching a sporting event then leave a record for my posterity. Consider this a good idea with great intentions that could easily fall by the wayside without your help.

Even though I don't know you, know that I love you and am proud of you and know that you are part of a great family.

Welcome to my life...