Have you, like me, ever wondered why you continue to pursue certain things in your life? Now I’m not talking about negative, illegal, and/or otherwise unhealthy choices, I’m talking about serving God and others in your particular way. This week I’ve faced this question regarding writing these weekly articles.
Lest you think I’m sinking in despair and self pity (which I’m not!), let me explain. It’s been just over twenty years since I sent out my first offering to a rural newspaper. To my absolute delight they accepted it, printed it and asked for more. I’ve contributed on a weekly basis ever since and since that debut the pieces now appear in a number of other papers; I am truly blessed and honoured. My greatest challenge has been to come up with something of value on a weekly basis.
Fifty-two times twenty equals 1,040 and although I doubt I’ve missed submitting forty weeks worth, my thoughts therefore have appeared in approximately a thousand articles over the past two decades. It’s no wonder there are weeks when I scan the aging brain for new ideas and my former articles for earlier topics.
Writing is my ministry these days but I know from experience that any one in any kind of service wrestles with the same question: Why do I continue? A friend and well published writer and speaker once sent me a card which I attached to the wall above my computer. This week it has become even more meaningful:
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer but because it has a song”.
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”
If you’re wondering why, keep singing my friend. Someone needs to hear your song!
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