Hello, After a Long Silence

I haven’t blogged in a while for several reasons. First of all, I was working on a book. Three books, actually. One of those books will be available some time this month.

I’d also been prepping for a writers’ conference. That conference was this weekend. It was brilliant! I loved it! I had such a good time and made some key connections with people! I’ll let you know if anything comes of my meetings with the agent. Now that the conference is over, I have a bit more brain space and will catch up on a number of things. Including editing your book, if I promised you that I would! (Feel free to remind me.)

The garden needed planting, baby chicks needed tending, and MacKenzie needed extra attention in school since she’s beginning to read and wants to learn more. Both mom and daughter are super excited about this development!!!

One of the other reasons that I’ve been quiet lately is that I’ve been…frustrated. I’ve been trying to put words to it for a while now, because it hurts my heart.

I’m all about diversity. I love having a ton of friends from different backgrounds and different ideologies. In kindergarten, as I may have mentioned before, I was in the ethnic minority. The majority were Chinese. The classroom had kids from the inner city of New Haven, CT and kids from the desert in Ethiopia. If people talk to me about privilege, this is what I count from my personal history as a great privilege. It was beautiful and fun and, frankly, how I wanted the rest of life to be.

Unfortunately it’s not. And I go through seasons where it upsets me that if I got all my friends in the same room there might, by the end, be a gun fight. Well, not really, because some of them are diametrically opposed to guns, but I think you get what I’m saying.

I needed a season to come to terms, all over again, with the reality that people who have opposing ideologies don’t like to be around each other, even when they say that they do.

Using the vocabulary of love and demonstrating the actions of love are two completely different things. My job is to love, not just talk about it. I had to take a season to walk out that truth.

I needed clarity, and silence gives that kind of clarity. I needed to listen to the person and not the ideology.

Over the next few months I’m going to share some from my studies in Revelation. It may be very different from other teachings on this book, but this study gave the reasons why and how I wrote Revelation Special Ops. If the study gets weird or boring, feel free to yell at me. I might yell back and I hope the discussions are lively. :)

I look forward to this new season and I’ll try not to be so quiet. If I’m silent again, the reasons will probably include what I mentioned above. Sometimes I just need perspective.

Blessings!