I have not done much actual writing lately. I’ve missed it. I enjoy putting out the quick videos (although I am not very good at it yet), but there is something about putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard that is just more fulfilling.
Something about writing down thoughts makes me feel like I have accomplished something with my day. I makes me feel like I have reached some sort of summit. Maybe that is what makes me a writer. Maybe it’s not about the publishing of the writing. Maybe it is about the sense that writing is the answer to some call of my heart.
Writing has always been one of my great joys. I miss it when I don’t get to do it.
WHAT ARE THE THINGS IN YOUR DAY YOU MUST DO TO FEEL ACCOMPLISHED?
Lillie-Put 
Is that a serious question? If so, here’s my serious answer… converse with the Lord. Not just ask for something; have a conversation. This phrase is on my website, “Key to successful prayer: Ask God what HE wants prayed; pray that.” Sometimes our conversations are hilarious, sometimes quite serious. Sometimes short, sometimes very long. Off and on all day long, we might keep up a running conversation about whatever is on his heart and / or on my heart, but then again, we might not. Regardless, our conversations are the most important, most essential part of my day. And since writing has been part of my life for many years, sometimes those conversations with the Lord get written down.
Be blessed, pastor! Bette
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Yes! It was a very serious question meant to spark some discussion.I have been growing my prayer life for nigh on 45 years. It is the spring board of everyday and when it is not as it should be then nothing else gets done in anything like a proper manner.
That all said, I think I was trying to say that I have been feeling a little underachieved lately and I think that is because I have left behind this very important part off my personality/ gift-mix. It has been a struggle for several years to figure out if and how this writing thing should be worked into my life. Every time I seem to be getting on top of figuring it out something else shifts and I end up neglecting it again.
Pastor Jay, writing, like anything else we do as ministers, is a calling from the Holy Spirit. So is the schedule we/he follows with our writing. It’s HIS schedule; HIS calendar; HIS topic; HIS, HIS, HIS. Sometimes we want to “get it done” today, or this morning, or at least by bedtime, because we’re thinking WE HAVE TO GET IT DONE. Emphasis on the WE. But suppose the Holy Spirit desires for you to spend time being with and talking with a friend who needs you, instead of writing? Or maybe spending some time first listening to His voice, his interests, his cautions, his change of subject / direction, before writing a single word? A change in pace doesn’t necessarily mean you’re neglecting it. Not if HE is the one who is actually the author of your work and the manager of your timetable. And I feel sure he is. Don’t let the enemy distract you with misdirections here. Just a little FYI note, I was licensed as an adult Bible teacher on September 25, 1994. Sometimes it seems like yesterday, other times it seems like it happened a century ago. But I’ve found that teaching ministry comes in many forms, not just standing in front of a classroom. Sometimes it’s a blog post, sometimes it’s a phone call, an email, or a comment like this. Sometimes it’s listening to a grief-stricken friend, praying in the spirit as I hear her pain, instead of sitting down with my Bible and writing a blog post. When you’re led by the Holy Spirit, your activities, schedule and timetable tend to be turned inside-out occasionally. Mine, and yours alike. Blessings and prayers from Florence, SC. Bette Cox
You are so right Sister Betty. I put writing aside for several years because I felt the Lord calling me to do so. Now I feel the urge to get back to it. I am finding myself impatient with myself for having lost the discipline which I had built over years of daily writing. It is not as easy as just flipping on a switch for me and I wish I found the discipline as easy as I once did.