Thoughts. . .

Feel the need to put some thoughts to words:

First, I want to thank all of you who have read my posts over the last two years! Writing blogs is a ministry of sowing seeds. I don’t know who will read my posts or how a post may impact a reader. I write about difficulties and lessons from my own personal journey of faith hoping that perhaps someone who is going through a hard time will read a post and that it will encourage them to keep pressing ahead!

I ask that if you read a post and it impacts you to please leave a comment. I don’t know what you may be going through if you don’t let me know. It’s okay to disagree or have a different view so long as you communicate with respect. No one has to read anything that I write. I don’t get paid for my writing, nor do I desire to gain fame or praise for what I do. I am not working as a “religious” paid leader or teacher.

Writing these blogs at times has been painful and requires me to process deeply personal and hurtful experiences. Can you imagine being vulnerable to people whom you have not met? I often wonder how wise it is for me to be writing such things and if I will continue from this point forward.

I understand why many bloggers quit. The challenge is to write with both truth and grace that communicates truth, but in a manner that others can understand.

The only thing that keeps me going is the understanding that anyone who might read these words is someone created in God’s image and that might need to know that our Heavenly Father desires to redeem and restore!

I read this quote recently from C.S. Lewis: take a moment to let these truths sink in

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”

C.S. Lewis The Weight of Glory

Every person we encounter is an opportunity to love Christ by loving them! I fall short of this ideal daily; yet, God bides me to press ahead and forget the sorrows and failures of yesterday! Please keep these things in mind as you read posts. I have had to rewrite this post numerous times to get it as it needs to be.