Let's catch up.

It's been a little while.

Hello friends and fellow Bereans.

I knew it had been a while since my last post. But when I logged into my dashboard, I was shocked to see just HOW long it’s been.

Life really got away from me after my last post here. Pressure got put on for us to hurry up and find our own place, so we went through the whole rigmarole of making an offer on a house we didn’t love, only for it all to fall through in the inspection stage. I think God was protecting us from a decision we would have majorly regretted. But right after all of that, he led us to a five-acre property right in the heart of the area we really wanted to move to and a community of like-minded Christian neighbors. It was the answer to so many prayers, and I’m still blown away by it.

But it was raw, entirely wooded land, and we’re on a budget and avoiding debt, and so that meant lots and lots and lots of hours (and sweat and sore backs and stiff joints) doing the work ourselves to clear it and carve out space for our RV and our little homestead. And we’re still at it. We’re almost there, though.

Long story short, our landlords sold our rental house in July, but they were kind and generous in gifting us the trailer that we had originally arranged to buy from them. Since our move-out date in early August, we’ve been living in said trailer, parked next to the driveway of the kind folks who sold us our property, which is adjacent to theirs.

In the midst of all of this, God has blessed my freelance pet writing business like never before, and I’ve pretty much been writing articles almost non-stop since April, which is how we’ve been financing this whole shindig.

So the article writing and the work on the property have pretty much consumed all my time and energy this year. I just haven’t had anything left for anything else.

But my desire is to get back to writing here again. So I’ve been praying about that. I’ve been feeling like the time is coming to stop making building my own house my main focus and get busy building up God’s house through the written word. I read through Haggai this morning, and that felt like confirmation. And like a friend said to me recently, we’re running out of time, and sometimes you’ve just got to step out in faith and see what God does with it.

The end is in sight as far as us getting moved onto our property. We just need a couple more loads of gravel delivered and spread on our RV spot (but first we have to cut down a great big limb that caused a major malfunction with our last gravel delivery, plus we need a long enough period without rain for the ground to dry enough that the dump truck won’t get stuck in the mud) and then get an RV carport set up there. And then we can move and finally start calling our own little five-acre wood home.

But the freelancing hasn’t been following the usual patterns of slow-down cycles that I’ve come to expect over the years. Assignments just keep coming, and praise God because we need the income, but that’s also been the biggest obstacle to writing the things that are on my heart.

That said, I’ve realized that I’d gotten into all-or-nothing thinking. I feel like the Holy Spirit has been gently nudging me and reminding me that I’ve written entire novels in just 20 to 30 minutes a day. I certainly ought to be able to write blog posts by devoting that much time each day to it, without cutting into my paid writing time or endangering my deadlines.

Another big obstacle I’ve been struggling with is not knowing where to start, because there’s SO MUCH I want to tackle here. But that’s becoming clear, too. I think I need to start with Israel. So much error in the Church is based on a misunderstanding of Israel’s standing with God and their role in the end times, and by the Augustinian teaching that the Church has replaced Israel.

Let's talk about tradition and early Church history

So, Lord willing, in the coming weeks I’ll be diving into all of that. In the meantime, if you’d like to see me get this whole shebang going again, I’d appreciate it if you could be supporting me with prayer. Please pray for the Lord to direct me to what He wants me to write here, for His Spirit to guide my understanding and lead me to truth, and that He’ll continue to make financial provision for us while helping me make space in my schedule for this.

Hopefully, I’ll be back in your inbox soon with my first post on Israel. Until then, may the Lord bless you and keep you and guide you into all the truth.

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