'personalness'
Once again the ‘personalness' of my writing has been questioned.
Why do I write on this blog?
First, this blog is my sounding board.
I am, I feel, metaphorically speaking, in a wilderness with no trail or map or compass.
Sometimes the wilderness is being a single mom, which I have been for over sixteen years.
Sometimes it is ministering to singles which I only recently started.
Even being a Christian these days can feel like being alone in a wilderness.
Sometimes the wilderness is life, just being a human being. I've never been a human being before. It's all new to me.
I have a guide book, the Bible, but to be honest sometimes I don't read the instructions and sometimes I don't understand the instructions.
Second, and most of all, I blog because God loves me.
If God hadn't been with me through all my trauma and drama I would not be alive today. I would have killed myself years ago. I honestly don't know how anyone survives a day without the knowledge that God is real and taking care of them.
God has been with me every day, every step in every situation. He whispers in my ear, "You're not alone" and I know I can make it through because I'm not alone.
These days as I walk through my metaphorical wildernesses I discover that I am not the only one wondering. Many people are here with me and sometimes they know much less about the terrain than I do. So I light beacons, leave signs and even write guide-blogs to help them through the places that I have already been.
If I can write or say or do something that makes one person have a relationship or a better relationship with God then I've done what I was put on this earth to do.
I blog so that you can learn what its like to be a Christian and hopefully through that knowledge you will become one too.
2 Corinthians 1
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
I was gonna write you via private e-mail but changed my mind. I'm very thankful for you blog. For various reasons, I don't have much of a life these days. These words from you give me a glimpse into something I cherish.
I too walk through a wilderness. I know the terrain but it is awful lonesome out here. I keep looking for a way out.
Your "beacons" as you call them lead me to hope.
Today I talked to a woman who lost her 14 year daughter a few years back. She told me her daughter died in her arms, a victim of cancer. Then I was face to face with a 16 year old thug who has done more in his life than many of the people sleeping in HOuston County jail. He is a victim of abuse and is lost on the terrain you speak of. My friend's life, the 16 year old's life, my life, and your life, I suspect, have been fraught with worries and cares and shattered dreams.
You and the things you write her are halping me find hope. Thanks and please don't stop writing. (Comment this)
Matthew 19:14 (partial) (KJV)
Suffer the little children
1st Corinthians 15:10 (partial) (KJV)
But by the grace of God I am what I am:
As you said in your original post, "Many people are here with me and sometimes they know much less about the terrain than I do. So I light beacons, leave signs and even write guide-blogs to help them through the places that I have already been."
To someone, to me if no one else today, your beacon shined in the darkness. No one lights a beacon in the noonday brightness, they light in the dark when people need light. By doing so, you are practicing the verse in Corinthians you quoted. Someone showed you a beacon and you showed someone else.
Matthew 5:14-16 (KJV)
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Sorry I'm going on so much but it has been a rough day. (Comment this)
I really appreciate those words,
isn't it funny how on rough days we quote scripture and on good ones we just smile and say thanks. I think God intended it that very way, for scripture to be there for us to literaly lean against when we need support, to be held up, against winds of ... whatever
thanks (Comment this)