I started blogging about 8ish years ago — mainly out of my need to use words to communicate ideas that were becoming mush in my head due to mothering three preschoolers. I mean, before mommyhood, I could form sentences and finish thoughts and think kinda deep. After mommyhood, not so much. Then I heard of blogging. Brain cells optional. Just kidding.
Blog. It’s a funny word. Blog. Blob. Blogosphere. I heard of blogging and knew nothing about it. Nothing. But I started to have a message of hope and encouragement burn in me for other women. I started to have a growing desire to connect with other women about life and faith and walking it all out in the day-to-day. So — like two-thirds of the American adult population — I started a blog. And I had twelve followers for months and months and years. Twelve.
Over those first couple of years, I would ask God if He still wanted me to keep writing. I would wonder whether or not it actually made a difference. And every time I questioned, God comforted. He would send a word of encouragement from one of my twelve followers. And I would press on. And press on some more. Never really knowing at the time all that He was doing in me through writing.
Fast forward many years, passed lots of poorly crafted blog posts, to today. I recently got an email from a woman in the Netherlands. The Netherlands. I live in North Carolina, USA. And this woman told me that my most recent eBible study has changed her life. In the Netherlands. Or another recent email from a sweet sister in Australia. And other emails of encouragement from countries I can’t pronounce. Only God could do that.
What started as a mom in her pj’s wanting to have real discussion with other women led to a mom in her pj’s who still wants to have real discussion with other women, even women across oceans.
If God has put a message in you
then it’s with purpose.
Why am I telling you this? Well. Because if God has put a message in you — like it’s burning and you just have to get it out — then it’s with purpose. It is. It may be something in you He’s transforming through the writing process. It may be something in one of your readers to which He is speaking. It may be for a woman on the other side of the globe. Regardless, the place of blessing happens in sweet obedience. Following His promptings. Seeking Him and then writing what He leads us to write.
It isn’t our job to “bring the harvest.” It’s our job to plant the seeds. And to us bloggers, our words are seeds. Words that point to the Word. The harvest is up to Him.
Why do you blog?
You belong here! Our heart is to equip you to be an effective Christian communicator.