Taking a break

 

On July 12, 2017 I had decided to take some time off from my blog for a couple of reasons.  The first reason is, as many people have had in the past, I had writers block.  I found that as time went by past Victoria Day I couldn’t think of new topics to write about.  Most of the time I can think of something encouraging that I can relate to others, but at the time that wasn’t the case.

I was racking my brain trying to think about what I should write, when I realized that the best posts that come from me are the ones that I get inspired to write.  I decided I needed to take a step away from my writing for a bit, to see why I was writing my posts in the first place.

I think God sometimes puts barriers in our way to cause us to stop and take a breath.  If we are always going non-stop, then we can’t really get to our full potential.  What will happen is we’ll always be gasping for air trying to do everything.  In this revelation, I saw that I needed to take some time off for myself to breathe again.

During this break, I remembered again why I started this blog in the first place, which was to encourage people.  I have been through a lot in my life, and I have always felt I wanted to help people with the things that I have gone through.  If I’m putting out posts for the sake of having a post each week, then I’m not helping anyone.  That doesn’t mean I won’t try to get a post up each week, but that I’m taking the pressure off myself to feel like I must write all the time, so I can be the best writer I can be.

The second reason I decided to take a break from writing is a logical one.  My husband and I decided to move so that he could be closer to work.  I didn’t realize how much time packing and moving would take.  Every time I packed up a box, there seemed to be five more boxes that needed to be packed; it felt like an endless job.

Even after the move, we still had so much work to do.  We needed to pick up some things from our old apartment that we had left behind, as well as clean the apartment.  It felt like our work for the move would go on forever, and we were only moving the equivalent of a mid-size apartment.  I couldn’t imagine what moving a whole house worth of things would be like.

With all that in mind, I knew I couldn’t dedicate time in the week to write a post while I was preparing for the move.  I think it is important in those times when everything is going crazy in your life to focus on God and help Him tell you what are the most important things that need to be done in your life.  When you hear from Him what that is, then you should do that.

Sometimes we must give up things temporarily to get our lives back on track.  There is no shame in accepting help, or saying no to things or people.  For the most part people will understand, and it will make things easier in your life.

Patricia <3  :) 

1 Kings 5:4   But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or disaster.

 

Here’s a song about searching for answers and you can’t seem to find.  That you know you aren’t home yet, as this isn’t where we belong.  That the walls may be falling down on us, and when you are lost in the current of a raging sea.  But that there is a blessed assurance that is holding onto us, being our Lord.

  That when the world shakes and the light fades we want to be found in Him.

 

“Where I Belong”  by Building 429

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhEGRIOcTEY&list=PL3whQX319DaB37iB8NZpJe206iSdpe3kc&index=193