New Beginnings
Greetings! I’ve missed you. I’ve missed writing blogs and have missed hearing your responses. The break in communication is my problem. I dropped the ball and I apologize for my lack of faithfulness.
I haven’t been incapacitated, but have had a difficult time adjusting to increased opportunities to minister coupled with greater responsibilities to see them through. It’s been rich and good. We have been blessed.
However, it isn’t surprising that as doors opened for ministry, life challenges also increased. No major disasters, but trials and added responsibilities require attention and consume time and energy.
In addition, my declining ability to multitask—to keep plates spinning on several poles at the same time—has resulted in my blog-plate crashing to the floor.
Meanwhile, I’ve realized that my greatest joy in blogging is that is forces me to process more deeply the things the Lord is saying to me and doing in my life. (When I hear that you are blessed by what I write, it is an additional blessing.) I miss it all, but particularly the deeper processing that is part of blogging.
On the other hand, in the midst of a schedule that is often totally unpredictable, the pressure of trying to post at a set time each week was an increasing drain on my joy—and a temptation to blog to meet a deadline rather than in response to God.
Consequently, I intend to respond to His prompts rather than try to post at a set time each week. I’m praying that the Lord will help me be faithful in completing the task when I don’t have a deadline pushing me to finish.
I’m excited about embarking on this new beginning. However, I will need the Lord’s help to see it through. I appreciate any prayers you’d offer on my behalf. Thanks, and may the Lord bless you to faithfulness in the thing He is calling you to.