the Next thing

Marty and I were driving home from Bowling Green tonight and as the sun was going down in the distance I said something out loud that I have been thinking for a couple of months.

“I’ve really let myself down.”

I knew I needed to explain.

“My blog, at first it was so easy to write our story until one day it wasn’t for so many reasons.”

I had written about everything leading up to our daughter's diagnosis and then. . . well then life happened, I got really busy with life and work and when I had moments of stillness I didn’t want to clear my head to write to finish telling her story.  It never seemed like the right time.

Then June began and I took some time to remember and to write and it began to pour out again word after word.

I sat in the car tonight talking to Marty about the busyness of life and how sometimes the words come easy and sometimes, well not so much.  I finally mentioned that I just didn’t know how to pick back up again where I left off and he said with such wisdom, “Maybe that is a blog post in itself?

Maybe it is. 

How do you start again?  Maybe you can relate? You started something some time ago only to lay it aside for a season, but you sense with everything inside you it is time to pick it back up again.  How do you start again when the enemy wants more than anything for you to leave it laying right where it is?

Well, you just start where you left off, with the next thing.  Just do that next thing, whatever it is don't over think it. Friends don’t beat yourself up for a season that you temporarily put away whatever dream or goal you had.  If God still has placed it on your heart, if it’s still there, pick it up again, go for it.  

A restart isn’t failure.

Tonight I am doing that next thing and picking back up where I left off.  When I started my blog last August I wanted to finish telling Lorris’s story before her next birthday and I am going to do just that.

If you are new to the blog and want to catch up from the beginning you can find my very first post here or if you would like to read my last post the click here

 See you very soon!