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.
It’s a blog about being vegan, so does God and Christianity and faith really belong here at all? How will it impact our search engine optimization if there are a bunch of posts about God on a vegan website?
Those are serious questions I kept asking myself. But I had this gut feeling that I needed to start incorporating our beliefs into this site. 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 [extra href=”#example” title=”Definition” info=”popover” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”Feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one’s wrongdoing or sin.”]repent[/extra] 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 our readers, is that through these posts, we will identify areas of weakness and take the steps to improve upon them.