Hello friends. Thank you so much for reading my blog. This is the 10th month of my writing adventure, though challenge is probably a better word at this point. The first few months were so amazing. God made it very easy for me, giving me one idea after another. I was stunned week after week that I actually had something to post. I felt like a bubbling spring flowing down hill with joyful ease. But that did not last and the act of writing became an act of discipline. By my 5th month I struggled to see why I was writing a blog, but every time I went back to the Lord I had a strong sense that it was what He wanted me to be doing. Even now, as I near the end of my one year commitment, I feel strongly that He wants me sitting down on a regular basis putting my thoughts into sentences and paragraphs. Even though it never feels like, looks like, I have time. Even though I’m not sure if it makes a difference to anyone if I post something. In others words, I am persevering through to my commitment.
This morning I was writing on “The Necessity of Beauty”, which I will hopefully finish and post soon. I have 19 unfinished posts. Thus far, I have relied heavily on feeling inspired. Nineteen unfinished posts testify to how often I have not felt inspired. But, I have come to understand, that these unfinished works have a purpose: listen. Listen longer. Listen more deeply. Listen for the whisper of the Spirit. What is He saying? I’m used to doing that in the counseling office but am struggling to practice it here. Thus, the necessity to stick with it.
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2
Surely, you too, are persevering in some way, through some challenge? I am praying for you this morning, dear reader (if you are reading this you most definitely are very dear to me). Would you pray for me? That we might discover the wonder of His strength made evident in weakness.