Confessions and Realizations From A Blogging Slacker

I have been a blogging slacker. I have all sorts of excuses.

Two cross country moves in less than 12 months.
New homes {plural}.
New jobs {plural}
New friends {plural}.
New everythings {routines, habits, plans, all that and more}.

Real life seemed to demand all of me and life on the internet became seemingly less important.

But I have made a decision. I am back.

Not just because I am home again {and it is great to be home again}. But because my friend Sarah Markley made me realize something this weekend at Allume.

By not writing here, in this safe space, I am avoiding God. {Yeah. That was a doozy of a realization.}

I have been avoiding God.

This place right here, this simple little blog, is my sacred space. This place right here is where I come and wrestle with God. This place right here is where He shows me His grace, His beauty, and His ability to meet me in sadness, in fear, and in joy. This place right here is where I learn from life.

“A lot of time the learning doesn’t come until the writing.”

Yes. What Sarah said right there. That has been my experience. That has been my Truth.

My learning doesn’t come until my writing.

And since I do want to keep learning, keep wrestling, and keep growing, I have decided that it is time that I AM BACK. I have decided I am going to put some words down here at least a couple times of week for the indefinite future. I have decided I am going to be a more consistent blogger.

Thank you sweet Sarah for the reminder. Know that God uses your words, written and spoken to nudge us forward.

What keeps you writing?

Or on a more serious note, are you, could you possibly be, avoiding God?