I’ve been pretty quiet lately – on social media and on this blog. If you’ve paid close attention, perhaps you’ve noticed that I haven’t shared as many words as I often do. Maybe you haven’t noticed or you’re thankful. Either way is fine. I haven’t gone away. I’ve been busy with life in the last several weeks but, more so I’ve been in some soul-searching meetings with the Lord. This feels like the right time for an update.
For those of you who don’t know, this blog was born out of a time of grief for me. I didn’t have big plans or dreams for a life of some kind of ministry. I was just trying to work and take care of my people. As He often does, God had other plans. I started this blog as place to house one piece I had written. I simply wanted to put it in place that gave people an opportunity to read it, and a blog made the most sense.
God took that offering and began to transform my life into something I never expected. On the surface, it wasn’t something I was prepared for or planning on. That was 150 posts, about 100,000 words, and one book ago. I am confident that God has set me on the path I’m supposed to travel even though it wasn’t one I expected.
With that said, a variety of opportunities continue to come my way. I’ve been interviewed by various media, asked to write for different sites and speak at events. It’s been more than I was technically prepared to handle. Simply put, I’m busting at the seams of what God asked me to start in the fall of 2019. If He had told me then what He would be asking of me now, I probably would have run the other way. Fortunately, I serve a good God who doesn’t spring everything on me at once.
During the last few weeks of 2022, I had been praying about a word of the year. I’ve never done that before but somehow it stuck with me that I might need one to help me focus going forward. I spent some real time in prayer asking the Lord for a word that would help me focus on what He wanted for me. It took a few weeks before He eventually shared with me the word BUILD. My word for 2023 is build.
Much like the Israelites after leaving Egypt, I had been roaming in a desert portion of my life not being fully obedient. Grief became a Red Sea moment. God let me write my way through it and pitch a tent on the other side. But tents aren’t meant to be permanent. This is the land He created me for, and it’s time to build something more permanent. He’s been clear with me about that.
He continues to spare me the overwhelm of knowing what that will fully look like down the road, but for now He has set me to work on a foundation. That will look like a website that will better accommodate the growth and opportunities He has given me. I plan to continue writing on the blog as well. All of that is in the beginning stages now, and I will share more when the time is right.
In the meantime, please be patient with me during my construction process. I am funneling my focus into building a proper foundation to support the work God is giving me. So much of what I have been doing in the last couple years has felt like riding rapids – like I was swept up in a current out of my control. I didn’t set out to be in this place. I just stopped trying to hang on to the safety of past places where I wasn’t meant stay and agreed to go wherever God led.
Here we are out of the rapids. It’s time to do some building. I hope you’ll stick with me through this process. It will still be a place of encouragement and support. I hope to continue to shine a light that helps you to see on your best, worst and all days in between, just how much God loves and cares for you.
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Robyn, thank you for sharing this journey with us, your readers. We all have wandered in the desert dazed, and your writing has helped so many of us who are walking our grief journey. Nice to be traveling with you, my friend.