Nearly a year ago, I had the impulse to write. Not just to write, but to share what the Lord was revealing to me during a very difficult season in the life of my family. Every morning, I would wake up early, often after a very restless night, open my Bible and begin to pray and read. Words of affirmation, encouragement, and even correction washed over me and I felt the desire to share those words on the ever so popular social media sites..

Sharing helped me cope with the chaos that was surrounding me. It provided an outlet to pour my heart out to the netherworld: to cry, to scream, and even to heal. I never thought about anyone actually READING what I wrote. This was not for them. This was for me and what God was doing in my heart and in my life. It was His way of connecting with me on a level that I had never experienced before.

As time marched on, I continued this practice. We approached the Advent and Christmas seasons and the desire to share what I knew and what I was learning was constant, almost like a drumbeat that I could not escape. On days that I would miss the practice or ignore the call I found my day to be more disturbed than it already was. During Advent, I shared daily devotionals on the different weekly topics: Hope, Joy, Love, and Peace.

It was during this time, and continuing through Christmastide and Epiphany that people around me began to share with me how much my writings meant to them. They would share how it was encouraging them, teaching them, edifying them. I had never even thought about THEM. But here we were. On multiple occasions, people would ask if I was ever going to write a devotional. Honestly, that had never bubbled to the front of my thinking, but again, here we are.

While an actual published book is in the works, and I’m fairly certain it will be an Advent season devotional (it is my favorite season, after all) I felt it was time to take the writing to a deeper level. God kept impressing on my heart to write a blog. I know nothing about blogs, how to promote them, how to share them, but in this new desire to be obedient to where the Spirit is leading, I am shifting from writing solely on the social media platforms and shifting to a more formal platform…..enter the free version of WordPress.

I will be honest in saying that I was too much of a chicken to go all in with the paid version. I have issues with procrastination. It’s part of being ADD and dyslexic. But if this is of God and not just some whim in my head, it will go where the Lord wants it to go. I know at some point I will need to share my testimony so people can understand how I got where I am. It has not been an easy journey. Life never is. Anyone telling you otherwise is full of it. But Looking back over the last nearly 50 years, I can see where God had his hand on me, walked with me, supported me and guided me even when I had everything on my mind except for Him.

If you are reading this, and are already a believer, please pray for me. Pray that I will be faithful to what God has asked me to do. Pray that my motivations will stay out of the way so His word will reach whomever it is intended for. I cannot promise I will not offend. I will probably offend myself. It’s happened before in this journey. Pray for those that will read these words. If you do not yet know Jesus and maybe don’t know how or what to pray, that’s ok. I’m glad you are here. I hope the words of this journey bring you comfort and hope in this very dark world. I will pray for you as you seek whatever it is you are seeking.

May God richly bless each and every one of you as you seek to encounter Jesus in your own, personal way. Thank you for sharing this journey with me.