Even as a lifetime crafter of words, I find that creating a blog is more challenging than I anticipated. I am waiting to publish the next post while I determine potential changes, and then make them, in an effort to focus more fully on the purpose of God’s writing gift for me and to improve on general elements of the blog.
My years of dreaming to be a travel writer can distract me from the purpose God has for me–to share how the Bible and my joy in Jesus are relevant to our everyday lives and to all that we see and experience when we travel. So, though I have a third post nearly ready in the series about Door County, I’ve stopped and been assessing. I want to set constants in the way I do things.
God ultimately answers my prayers to get me on the right track; He reminded last night that my title’s reference to “travels” does not confine me to physical destinations. Our travels are also through life, through the Bible, as we go to the “distant and unfamiliar places” referenced in a Merriam-Webster’s definition of travel. This has led to the change in the subtitle for the blog.
Being more general, I can be freer to write shorter posts about God working in my ordinary life. He is just so good! I want to share some of the God moments at home. I love how He provides what we need when we need it. He changes our plans for the better. He speaks often, through the theme of a devotional I am reading or the sermon given at church. Or through the words of bloggers, like Anna of http://creativelyunfilteredgrace.com/ , who reminded me to strive less and be still.
The pastor in yesterday’s church message used a roadmap approach as we followed the outline; it conveys what is ahead in the sermon. I plan to use the same approach for the first three lines of my posts, for example, a thought for my next Door County post: Plentiful Shipwrecks, Acts 27-28, and Jesus Against the Waters of Destruction.
My husband, the dogs, and I are preparing for an RV road trip from our home in Illinois to South Dakota and Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. I will finalize and publish my next writing when I get a chance.
I appreciate the patience.
Truth in my Travels 