"I Have a Voice"

The blog is going through yet another transformation, which I think is only fitting that the blog display the changes in my life. Josh has started his own website (www.joshhawk.com), which you should definitely check out! Since he has made the transition from couple blogging, I felt like it was only fair that I do the same. It's not like this was ever really a couple blog anyway, unless you count Josh's 3 contributions!

In addition to this blog being authored by me alone, there will also be a change in content. After I started this blog a couple of years ago, I was always worried that no one would read it or that nobody cared about following what we were doing. The same was true in my life. For the past couple of years, I have felt somewhat invisible. I have realized that I have been content to live in my husband's shadow because I thought nobody cared what I had to say. You still may not care, but I am going to share anyway because I have discovered that I too have a voice.

For those of you who saw "The King's Speech," you will remember the scene in which a stuttering King George VI (Colin Firth) yells at his therapist (Geoffrey Rush) after having been asked why he was in the therapist's office, "Because I have a right to be heard. I have a voice." That scene is so powerful to me because not only did I realize that I have a voice, but that everybody has the right to be heard. Unfortunately, we live in a culture where some voices are louder than others. Those voices drown out the voices of injustice and discrimination and because of those thundering voices, many choose to remain silent.

I am not going to use this blog to make a political statement (well not often), but rather I am going to speak what is on my heart. I have found that it is not in who listens or reads my thoughts, but the importance is that I fight the comfort of invisibility and use my voice. So this blog will be a journal of sorts, though not that personal, a way for me to find my voice. If you choose to listen, I will be honored; if you don't, I will speak still.