https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/11/16/i-found-my-lost-childhood-diary/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/11/16/i-found-my-lost-childhood-diary/#comment-4306 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:01:51 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=5040#comment-4306 Wonderful!

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/11/16/i-found-my-lost-childhood-diary/#comment-4297 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:54:16 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=5040#comment-4297 I was blessed by your comment, Leah!

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/11/16/i-found-my-lost-childhood-diary/#comment-4296 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:54:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=5040#comment-4296 Fascinating!

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/11/16/i-found-my-lost-childhood-diary/#comment-4295 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:36:20 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=5040#comment-4295 I have to say, I was SO VERY BLESSED by this post! Old journals have been for me, despite their addictive appeal, at varying points in my life, a kind of “prison” rather than a means of tracing the hand of God’s grace in my life. It is as if my past immaturities and failings actively condemn me in the here and how; and I feel an almost irresistible temptation to allow them to paralyze me. Being a person prone to extremes, I swing from wanting to burn all my old journals to clutching and hoarding them, and every decision to write more is equally as bi-polar. So, the matter-of-fact and somewhat whimsical approach you’ve displayed in this post concerning your own past journals had a very freeing effect on this reader! Thank you for sharing!

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/11/16/i-found-my-lost-childhood-diary/#comment-4293 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:46:27 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=5040#comment-4293 This was a beautiful story! Thanks for sharing this.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/11/16/i-found-my-lost-childhood-diary/#comment-4290 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:28:08 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=5040#comment-4290 I love this post and the snap shot into a young life!!! I was sorting through a box and found some high school diaries the other day… I don’t know if I would be brave enough to read mine to my kids…. with endless days, obviously school days with assignments due and even exams… that say “Dropped assignment and went surfing” I suppose I dropped the assignment off!!! But where I remember one or two days off in the Summer for a quick surf … it was more like one or two months!!! And not a single adult said a word!!! They must have all known!!! My admiration for my parents goes through the roof, who patiently waited for me to survive the surfing phase, and never said a word… I would still be “talking” to my kids months later!!! I did have a lovely christian woman who lived up the road, whose door was always open to me no matter what, and what a blessing she was. Always ice-cream in the freezer and piles of great Christian biographies to read… I had no idea what a profound influence her seemingly casual piles of books would have on my life!!! I learnt so many enormous lessons from her quiet example and it means that our house is open to local students and there is always ice-cream and a pile of christian biographies to borrow!!! Hopefully they will continue the tradition one day….

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