The First Step In the Journey

Hello all,

First let me thank you for taking the time to read this. I thank God for you as well because without readers like you, this would be my own personal online journal...

Let me tell you a little bit about myself (I suspect I will reveal more as this blog progresses). Like I wrote in my profile, I am not a wife nor a mother. At one point in my life, I aspired to those things, but now I aspire solely to do the will of my Heavenly Father.

That being said, the idea for this blog came to me in October of 2010. I was freshly unemployed and searching for what next to do with my life. Being educated as an attorney, I kept looking for work in the legal profession and praying that God would open another door for me. But....ever since I was in the single-digit ages, I've known that my calling was to be a writer. My objection was always that writing won't feed me or pay my bills.

So as I prayed and asked God what path he wanted me to take, this idea for living my Christian life in an inconvenient way came to me. The Holy Spirit had been dealing with me about trusting the Lord. Truly trusting Him...to a point that defies human logic...to the point where there is no human counsel that would agree....to the point of inconvenience...

And then it hit me. "An Inconvenient Christianity."

I shared the idea with a minister friend of mine and told him that he should preach a sermon series with that title. His response was that I should. And now more than one year of protestations, excuses and gentle, divine nudgings later, I'm finally beginning.

My prayer is that the Lord will use this blog to inspire US to continue to trust Him in a way that we never thought we could and let Him work in our lives beyond our wildest dreams.

Be blessed!

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Ride or Die

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An Inconvenient Christianity

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