Putting the Pen Back to the Paper

I’ve taken a break from posting on my blog for quite some time. I haven’t stopped writing per se, although these days inspiration doesn’t come as easily as it used to. My notes app on my phone is filled with both finished and unfinished writing, as I’ve spent a considerable amount of time trying to articulate the season I find myself in.

It has been a challenging season, one that has caught me off guard and one where, oftentimes, I lack the words to describe. Once you find yourself in a dark place, day after day goes by where all you think about is how you get to the next one – not how to write about what you are experiencing. Sometimes I have written but felt like it has gone nowhere because I like to write about hope, about things that encourage my readers to look up and see God’s goodness in their lives. So, how could I publish writings that have no hope because, in all transparency, I have struggled with finding hope in my season.

Dark seasons of life catch us by surprise like a storm but all it takes is a beam of sunlight to break through that lets us know the storm is passing. I finally feel like I see that beam of light and I am doing everything in my power to focus on that beam and not the storm that still is raging around me.

So that means to put the “pen back to the paper” and start publishing these posts again. Perhaps publishing my drafted pieces that sit on my phone unread. Or maybe finally finding the inspiration to write once again with fresh encouragement.