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| Ecclesiastes 11:11 |
I never really wanted to do the social media thing as much as have a means to put my touch on something that might be a gift to my children like some of the things I found when I cleaned my mother's house just before she passed. Her little notes that described certain things really touched me. I felt like I knew her on a new level. And I felt like she knew us, me, better than I ever knew. She was in my mind when she wrote her little notes. I so wished we could have spent some more time doing things together before her mind began to fail.
But, when I started this blog, I had one more thing in mind. I was hoping that if someone was seeking Christ, or God that he might lead them here and they might find a seed for their faith. I wanted not to just go to my Garden of prayers and posts, but to plant things there as well. I wanted to be constantly reminded that what we do for Christ, no matter how small, is like planting a seed, that is intended to grow and bear fruit. I learned a long time ago that we do not always know what fruit we bear. But the older I get, the more I know two things. Sometimes, that fruit is not so good, and you can't go back and ungrow it. It can be like a weed which out grows the good things. And two, it can be an annual or a perenial, fall on good ground or bad, but it can fall in the most unexpected places. Often, where we expect to plant something, is not where it ends up growing best, and it can or must be transplanted.
So now, I am wondering....although this has and is functioning for me, perhaps I should also print it. I have thought about this before. There is still something to be said for a book on a shelf to make purusing the pages visible to anyone who will pick up the book. If I really target this for my children someday, it is highly unlikely they will ever see much of it here.
I have found that my blogs are more for me than for others, and in the end, I always knew they would be. Yet, as a guest writer for Chrisy, I have had so many people say they read the combined blog because it is uplifting to them. I find there that Lori and Christy do as much to uplift me as I never could do for them. Our readers comment that they feel encouraged by our vulnerability, and by our choice to show the love of God and how it trumps everything else we ever knew about God.
God said to cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will return. For give me for not pulling up the actual verse here. That verse seems so odd until you understand that it means, it is OK to put something out there, into the virtual realm of "I don't know who this is for, or who may ever see it; I am just casting it on the waters." In fact, God wants to use even the thoughts we share with no one but him, to bless someone one day. So this blog is exactly that. It is me casting my faith upon the waters, as if there were no one at all but me and Jesus standing by the waters, setting tiny paper boats afloat and watching them drift away. What God feeds me with, I cast some of it out there, upon the wind and water, just because it is still in a place drifting upon cyberspace for someone God directs to find it, may. Now or never, I only expect God to know when or if. And I am totally OK with that.
Lord, this is yours, to use in any way you choose. My heart, my thoughts, my feelings, my failures, my joys, my bad days, my blessings, my all. It is all yours. Use it as you will. In Jesus name, AMEN
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