A Time to Write

Ecclesiastes 3 is known for its poetic repetition. “There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to kill and a time to heal…” The list and lessons continue on for eight verses.

My family has recently completed a time to start anew (at least I hope we’ve completed it for a while!). We moved back to the mainland from Puerto Rico in February (to read more about our island adventures, please visit: LaAventura), we were camped out in Louisiana with family for a while before moving to the Dallas area. Then, truly because we felt it was where the Lord was leading, my husband, J, accepted a position in the Houston area, causing us to break a lease and move without having any housing set up. We have been stressed out, worried, and broken. But we have witnessed God’s provision in the past couple of years in ways that we’d struggle to believe if we weren’t the ones in the middle of it. Now we are settling and relaxing…and now God is convicting.

I blog with two wonderful ladies who were (and continue to be!) some of my closest friends during our time in Puerto Rico. Follow that blog here: PassionateMindfulandContent.  All three of us have been in transition lately. One of the girls, A, has just moved to Guam with her Coast Guard husband and sweet, sweet little girl. D has relocated to her hometown in Missouri because of her husband’s job. What was once reliable posting has turned into hit-and-miss monthly. D has held it together better than all of us, but I digress.

There are not many things I am passionate about. I believe Jesus is Lord and I need to live my life according to His will, whatever the cost. I loved the classroom when I was in it, and I think education for our students is one of the best investments we could ever make. I believe our bodies are temples and we should feed them a beautiful variety of God-made foods because they ultimately belong to Him. I am passionate about living as naturally as possible in these times of technology, medicine, and waste. And…I love the written word, although I haven’t consumed or produced very much of it as of late.

I recently began a ladies’ Bible study, and I’m very excited about it. In our first meeting on Tuesday, I felt the Holy Spirit tugging at my heart that I needed to write again. It may be for my soul. Writing is therapeutic and God knows my spirit can be very weighed down at times. It may be for one other soul out there. One of my biggest desires in life is just to be used for my Savior’s glory. I’m not exactly sure how this will unfold, but I am sure that I’m supposed to be disciplined in my task. So, that’s what I’m going to try to do.

After those eight verses of poetry, Solomon says in verses 9-11, “What do people really get for all their hard work? I have thought about this in connection with the various kinds of work God has given people to do. God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.”

I’m excited to see what God has next in His beautiful timing.

God bless.