My family and I have been blogging for several years. It all started out with a talk by Elder Boyd K Packer in the April 2003 General Conference entitled “The Golden Years.” At the time I my wife and I lived far away from our parents and grandparents. Although the talk is about honoring and learning from our grandparents, I realized that I was losing contact with them and they were missing out on our kids growing up. I resolved that day to figure out a way to keep in contact. We wrote weekly e-mails with photo’s for about a year, which eventually morphed into a webpage, which then became a blog.

Eventually our family members began to request blogs as well and soon every member of our family was writing the comings and goings of their lives. We were writing a family history richer than anything ever done before, complete with photo, video and audio. It was fantastic.

I just recently redesigned one of my sister’s blog. As part of the new theme we added an about to the top of the page. The about ended with “This is a record/rambling of their lives.” It really struck me as I read… this sounded like something… then I realized:

I Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days; yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness of and the mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days. ((1 Nephi 1:1))

When we write on our blogs we are making a record of their lives that somebody will read someday. Unfortunately we are all so busy with our young families and new careers that we often don’t take time to write in our journals. There are large parts of the past 5 years for which our blog is the only record I have of what happened. (Sure brings to life how important it is to make a hard copy of what you are writing.. more on that later).

Much like scriptures, we don’t know who will read this. We have our dealings with our families, some of our trials, some of our joys, poems, parables, ponderings, humor, and even an occasional miracle.