The other night I attended a worship gathering at my church. The ministry I'm involved in is going through a lot of transition. As I wrote on Friday, God's has me in a place where I've been thinking a lot about my prayer life. That night at the worship gathering I was asked by the director of the ministry to consider fasting one day a week for the ministry as we progress through some more change. I was quite honored to be asked on the basis of the fact that he had no idea where I'd been with God recently in consideration of my prayer life and practices, disciplines, and habits therein.
After praying about it this weekend I've decided that I am going to fast through this time of transition. One day a week. I still have to figure out from what and how that will look exactly but the decision has been made and I'm pretty excited about this journey.
I don't write this story for boasting rights. I hope that most of you reading this know me well enough to know that. Far from, "Oooh, look at me, I was asked to fast"- I even even debated whether or not to write about it for that reason. I'm simply amazed - yet again - at how God chooses to confirm things so boldly in my life. The patterns and ways that He's using to speak with me are becoming so familiar and sweet that I can hardly stand how much He's demonstrating His power and love. This time I've decided that I will actively and boldly respond in a little way to what I sense Him calling me to do.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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