Promises

1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.

- Isaiah 61:1-3

God's promises are the only thing I'm hoping in right now. In this moment I have to believe that He truly can give beauty for ashes, gladness for mourning, and praise instead of despair. I struggle to find joy today but I also find that my only peace in these days is found in turning towards Him and hanging on with everything that I have and trusting that He is hanging on to me when I can't even find the strength to hold on at all.

Rough

All that I can say right now is this:

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28

To this I cling, not out of understanding the journey that I'm on but because my hope has to be found in this truth as it's the only solid thing that I have.

Delay

I do have a lot of thoughts to share - some of which I've started to write and others which are only titles and no text.

However, I must warn that there is probably going to be a delay in those thoughts reaching your eyes because I'm walking an extremely rough path at this moment and I don't know that I'll be able to cohesively share what I want to.

If you think of me, please just pray for me.

Thank you for reading and mostly, thank you for praying.

Writer's Block...Removed!

Finally, finally, finally I have something that I want to talk about!

Just last night I was lamenting yet again that I had not had anything to write about lately (and by lately I mean for months and months and months). I've started things but not finished them or decided that they were too nonsensical to make available for public consumption! I've written novels in my journal but nothing on this site!

So I prayed...that God would give me a direction and something to write about. Then I went to bed with no answers.

However, in God's goodness, this morning as I was getting ready I started writing a post in my head...which is how things usually go. Then it grew and grew and grew and now I'm pretty sure it's going to become a series here!

So, I'd like to invite you to join me on this journey as I share some of what God's been showing me over the last couple of months and I hope that in the long run, the wait was worth it!

First post to follow shortly (I mean, I do have a job, people)! :)

Words?

All I can say is this:

I do want to write, I just can't find the words!
So many false starts, nothing that works.
Rats!