The beginning

Dear friends,

I am excited, interested, mesmerised by how you will feel about me starting a blog. To be honest, I thought I would be the last person to start a blog. I'm not a 'bloggy' person nor am I anyway articulate. So why should I start now?

Inspiration comes from different sources:
First, I love eureka moments - and I would love to share these eureka moments with you!
Second, inspiration comes from tidying (crazy I know!)

The story goes like this :
Receiving a jewellery box ages ago from my mother at Christmas, I finally came to my senses and arranged  the jewellery that I have accumulated over the years (in different boxes of all shapes and sizes) into this box. Girls, you know that necklaces are prone to be tangled up and it's a right pain. Since I have all the time in the world tonight (since I'm jetlagged), I started untangling them. It was a slow process but I knew I should patiently unravel it as the consequences of 'hurrying the job' would result in a very tangled mess!

This made me think of the many times when we become tangled in our own lives (whether this may be  an obstacles in life, arrogance in our lives, relationship problems, self-absorption etc) and we run back to our Heavenly Father crying 'ahhh help!' The Father 'untangles' us from our misery with patience. We say 'hurry up God, I want it now' but we probably know that this time of untangling builds up character.

I realised that I would really like to start writing a blog - I love stories for those who know me well (probably because I was deprived of bedtime stories as a child). I can see myself sitting at Jesus' feet as a child and tug at his foot and ask him for more (I digress). What I love most about the stories is the LIFE behind it - why do things go the way they do? I thought why not share some of my own thoughts and stories?

Finally, a title - I wanted a cunning title; I did not want something not perfect. Of course, the Lord teaches me a lesson in this as well.
Here were my thought processes:
- something with tangled (from story)
- maybe something mosaic (my life is a bit of a mosaic)
- tangled mosaic? (nah, sounds waay too cheesy)
- tangled IN a mosaic?
- lives entangled
- mosaic of life?

I thought I should sleep on it a bit more but knowing me, I thought if I don't start a blog now, I'll probably find excuses not to start it another day. I enjoy photography, I wanted something about being tangled, I wanted to have the word mosaic (will explain later). 'Caught in a Mosaic?' - it wasn't the PERFECT title but it will do. I must admit it was not an EUREKA moment as I had hoped but I am happy with the name. Funny how I felt God taught me a lesson about perfection through the title name of a blog! *short digression - sometimes we feel that things in life should be perfect and go exactly the way we have planned it but sorry to break it to you we live in a not even close to perfect world.

Mosaic - why was I so adamant about the word mosaic.
It sounds like a word that wanna be artists would like to include in their repertoire - yup sounds like me alright!
Well mosaic reminds me that sometimes in life we look at the details of the picture and forget to stand back and look at the bigger picture. 'Why is this happening to me now?' - 10 years from now 'hmm.. this makes a bit more sense!' I would never have thought that I would be in the UK studying medicine 10 years ago but here I am! The bigger picture of life!
Also, it reminds me that we are all individuals with different gifts and ultimately we work best when we work together as lovers of Jesus Christ.


  
Picture taken from
http://johnwelsh.wordpress.com/about-you/


I think that concludes it for tonight friends!
To finish off, let me tell you about an interesting moment whilst 'designing' my blog! I love artistic pictures and as I was choosing a background for the blog - I kept thinking 'this image is zoomed in!' 'It must be the template I'm after; there must be something wrong with this!' After trying to adjust the template for 15 minutes and when I was about to give up, I thought 'maybe, just maybe i am zoomed in.' Alas, that was the problem! How many times do we try to find an excuse for our problems when the problem comes within? Guilty! :)

Carmen