Good Question

Cathy texted me. “Hi Have you stopped writing your blog?”

Yes. No. Maybe. I don’t know. I told her I’d hit pause, hoping that was true.

What is true is that the last 2+ months have been one thing after another. First, a wonderful vacation with difficult physical challenges. Then a month of Covid with its own issues, not the least of which was trying not to infect my daughter. (I’m not sure I succeeded.)

It’s over, right? No. I have a badly blocked Eustachian tube that refuses to resolve. My head feels filled with cotton and I have balance problems. I trigger a dizzy spell just rolling over in bed. When walking across the room is perilous, creative thinking goes out the window.

So, have I stopped writing the blog? Yes, for now, but I hope not permanently. I want to continue as long as there is one person who wants it. But more than anything, I want to obey and to please God, and I need Him to make that happen. Because right now, I’ve got nothing.

The Bible says, Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered.
(Hebrews 5:8 NLT) I think He’s teaching me the same way.

And when I think about it like that, it makes a difference. This is not punishment. God is treating me as His beloved child. And He is holding my hand through the trial.

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But God knows me.
He is testing me and will see that I am as pure as gold.
Job 23:10 Easy-to-Read Version