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Several months ago, I remember creating a website for the purpose of blogging. I had the same general concept: “Post Tenebras, Lux” (latin for “After darkness, light” – more on that later). I wrote an entire blog post on this particularly striking phrase I learned a couple years ago that has stuck with me ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Several months ago, I remember creating a website for the purpose of blogging. I had the same general concept: \"Post Tenebras, Lux\" (latin for \"After darkness, light\" - more on that later). I wrote an entire blog post on this particularly striking phrase I learned a couple years ago that has stuck with me ever since. I custom designed my site, very proud of the pictures I figured out how to upload, and the text I made, etc. <\/span>I'm not really sure what happened after all\u00a0the excitement of creating something new, except that I didn't keep up with it much and now that I wanted to get back into it again, I couldn't find it anywhere! It disappeared. Gone.<\/span>

Thus, the search that ended in disappointment also brought to life this newer, fresher, and way-cuter blog that I am totally motivated to keep up with now. After all this work, how can I let it fall by the wayside again?<\/span>

So here I am again. This blog has stemmed out of an itch of mine to communicate practically EVERYTHING that's in my little head,\u00a0combined with\u00a0the fact that I'm a stay-at-home mom with no one to communicate with except my 4 year old son during the daytime, sometimes a friend, and on his day off, my\u00a0husband. Even still, none of them really want to listen to all<\/em> the random thoughts, if\u00a0even\u00a0sometimes meaningful things I think about and contemplate all the time: hence, my blog. <\/span>

With that being said, I do hope to have a meaningful virtual existence and be an encouragement and perhaps even an inspiration to those who wander onto these pages. I am many things in this life: a wife, a mother (particularly a mother of a special needs son), a daughter, a friend, a follower of Jesus Christ, a lover of beauty and creativity and now most recently, a blogger (which I would put under the creativity category). :-) My posts will revolve around one or more of any of these because they all are part of who I am and they each affect how I live my life - especially the \"follower of Jesus Christ\". I strive to please my Lord in all I do, and this blog is no exception. I was created for His glory, and I can only pray that everything from the little funny posts to the huge contemplations or trials\u00a0of life I post about will point to the One who has loved me with an everlasting love and has saved me from death to life.<\/span>

This brings me to my blog post title: Post Tenebras, LUX. After darkness, LIGHT. This phrase has\u00a0a simple, obvious meaning\u00a0and a thousand parallels in life from which to draw. First and foremost, as I Peter 2:9 says, <\/span>