What's in a Name?

I'll start this blog in the manner, I suspect, that countless others have begun: this is my first blog entry on my first blog. I have considered blogging for a few years, but I dilly-dallied (read: procrastinated). I needed to have a good reason to write; I wanted to have something interesting and informative to say-- and, I'll admit, I couldn't think of a good blog name. Now I think I'm ready to keep a blog that someone will want to read. I've always had things in my head that I wanted to write about, I just wasn't sure anyone would want to read what I have to say. The exercise of writing down the thoughts in my head will be beneficial to me, and I hope to others, too.

I spent last week entering blog name after blog name only to find that each of them was 'unavailable.' My Faith Walks is the name of my blog partly because it was one of the few blog names available using my name. That's what I get for waiting too long, and for having too common of a blog-preferred name. I wanted 'walk' in the name because I do walk almost every day. When I walk, I pray, meditate, think and 'write' in my head. Some of what I think about is bound to find its way here. By turning thoughts into writing, I hope to wrestle with ideas, cement truths more firmly in my worldview, and share my spiritual walk with the Lord as an encouragement to others who walk in the Christian faith.

Why was my blog name so important? First because I don't want to change it; that would have been a likely scenario if I hadn't given it much thought. Hopefully I will never stop walking in any sense of the word. I know I will not lose my name; that is a part of who I am.
I also know I will not lose my faith in my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I can say that with complete assurance because my faith is a saving faith, a true faith. My walk in faith may be closer to a crawl or may at times be more like a sprint, but it will always be in faith.

In the Old Testament, a person either walked with God and obeyed His commandments, or he walked with man and did what was evil in God's eyes. Basically, one can walk in faith and light or walk in darkness and unbelief. I walk by faith in the Light of God's Word and only through the saving grace of God. Blogging will be a new path for me to walk. I'm excited about where this path will lead. I know where ever I go, I am never walking alone. Will you walk with me?