When Kacie and I set out to start a new blog, we knew we wanted to include some aspect of faith into it. Over and over I kept blocking myself from writing anything because I wasn’t sure of the direction I wanted to go with it. After posting a few posts about God, Jesus, and faith on her site, I decided to focus my efforts on life, parenting, and faith from a man’s perspective.
I fell in love with a site called Fatherly. When Fatherly first started, I really connected with their content and loved what they had to say. After a few months, it appeared they had changed direction for the site and I no longer had a place to get good, Christian backed content that I identified with. So where to turn?
That is a serious question I kept asking myself. But I had this gut feeling that I needed to start incorporating my beliefs into a website. In 2012 I started a blog called The Predictable. The main point of that blog was to provide an outlet for me to be open and honest with anybody that cared and to allow others to be open and honest. I wrote numerous posts about the simple things I did to help others in a time of need, I also wrote about some of the lowest points of my life and what God did to bring me out of that, and then I gave my readers the opportunity to share some of the lowest points of their lives and how God worked in them through those circumstances. I had posts ranging from the loss of a baby, to motherhood in a modern world, to eating disorders, and pornography addiction.
For whatever reason, God kept bringing me back to those posts which I thought were long gone since I no longer have that blog. However, I managed to find all of them in my email! So over the course of the next several months, I would love to share those posts and sprinkle in some new ideas here and there.
I am reading through Jeremiah now. Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet. In a nutshell, it is 52 chapters of the prophet pleading with his people to repent otherwise they will be destroyed. Throughout this book, God repeatedly tells Jeremiah that nobody is going to listen to him, yet God continues to call him to preach to the people. The book ends with King Nebuchadnezzar taking 4,600 Jews into exile.
I share that because I am the Jew in this situation. I feel that God has repeatedly been calling me to start sharing my faith more but I keep on ignoring Him. I put myself in this comfortable hole and have stayed nice and cozy for too long. He has placed on my heart a passion to actively share my faith and care more about other people. To take time to seek out those in need and then actually help them. And reading some of my posts from The Predictable made me realize that I used to care more about others and somewhere along the way I lost that. So my prayer, for myself and for my readers, is that through these posts, we will identify areas of weakness and take the steps to improve upon them.