Welcome!

Hello!  I'm glad you're here.  Sincerely, I am.  Thanks for stopping by.  :) 

I struggled with coming up with a title for this blog (I mean really, how, how, HOW do you distill all the thoughts swimming around in your head into one simple title that captures everything you want to say?).  I wanted a phrase that could describe anything I could possibly publish on this blog and yet not overwhelm the reader with a spectrum of ideas.  After LOTS of thinking, bounding ideas of others, and a few gentle head bangs on a nearby wall, I settled on the title you see up top.  Care to know why? 

I love words--and from that stems a love of dictionaries, definitions, and etymologies too.  Gracious comes from the word grace, and one dictionary defines it as "courteous, kind and pleasant, pleasantly indulgent, elegant and tasteful".  Isn't that a great word?!  Not only that, but I think it describes this world we live in wonderfully.  The earth is so giving, often so kind, and the people who live on it have not ceased to surprised me with their goodness.  There is so much to admire, laugh about, experience, learn, do, and enjoy!  I think these gracious inclinations of our surroundings testify of God's grace.  I know that He and His Son Jesus Christ are the epitome of grace and are so gracious to us, children of God wandering in this world.  I am grateful for their generosity and involvement in our lives--for it is Their guidance that makes life fulfilling, joyous, and beautiful. 

I hope my thoughts on this blog help you, dear reader, (and me for that matter) to have eyes to see the goodness in this world and rejoice in it.  For I feel that this life takes place in such a gracious world.