Walking the Path in 2015—Part One

 

Now that it is a new year, I wanted to share a little bit about our previous year and what we are looking forward to in this new year.  Our lives look much different than they did (and oddly the same) at the beginning of 2014, and we have certainly changed ourselves.

Every year for the past several years I have taken the time at the beginning of a new year to examine my life and set goals that I want to work towards.  I don’t call them resolutions because they are not as firm or as concrete as normal “New Year’s Resolutions.”  They also tend to be about the same every year, not because I don’t accomplish goals, but more of the fact that it is a continuation on working to be a better person, wife, and Christian.  There is no end point to my goals and they are definitely fluid in the fact that I revisit them every so often through the year and adjust to fit where I am in life and correct what may not be working.

Why we write, when we write…

Not only do I write for this blog, but I also like reading several blogs.  Some are about homemaking, some are about homesteading, and some are about Christian topics.  When Mark and I talked about starting a blog, we talked about what we wanted to write and why we wanted to write.

Out in the “Christian” sphere of books and blogs, there is a spectrum of ideas and beliefs.  Most of the problems stem from if you believe the Bible is true and what percentage of it you believe is true.  The other set of problems comes from incorrectly interpreting the Bible by either pulling verses out of context or not correctly interpreting them from the style that they are written in.  That’s how you can call yourself a Christian and believe completely opposite things from someone else who calls themselves a Christian (among other reasons).

One of our foundational beliefs is that the Bible is 100% true and that we believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible.  That means that we believe that every word in the Bible, as it was put together with 66 books in the original language, is true and that if the style it was written in speaks of it as an actual event, then we believe that it truly did happen sometime is the past.

Because of this belief, and the many beliefs that are not lined up with ours, we wanted to start a blog.  We wanted a place to encourage other Christians to be built up and at times to be challenged to a deeper walk in their faith.  And we do this all for the glory of God.  We do it because it is what He has commanded in His Word.

This is also the reason why we do not write regularly.  We’ve read all the articles that say if you want a successful blog, you must write regularly.  While we would love to do that, and hope to someday get ahead of schedule so that we can post on a regular basis, that is not where we are in our life.  And we would rather have an unsuccessful blog in terms of number of hits to our sites than post information that was written in haste just to make a deadline.  Usually in haste is where mistakes will be made or unclear writing will make it seem like we are saying something that we are not.  While these will still happen because we are human and make mistakes, we do not want to be careless in what we write.  Also, we both read every blog post that is added to either of our blogs.  Sometimes this too adds a delay of when a post is added.

What we also want to say is that we appreciate everyone who does check into our blogs for our posts.  And if you are a person who doesn’t want to check to see if there is a new post to either of our blogs, then look to the right of this webpage for the “Follow by Email” box; if you enter your email, you can get posts sent directly to your email when we put up a new one.  And it’s really easy to unsubscribe to it at any time.  Just click the “unsubscribe” at the end of any of the emails you get from our blogs.

Also, we will begin with new posts to each of our blogs this month.  We have a little lull in our schedule right now that we intend to start writing again.  And we are preparing for when things get busier within the next few months.

Thanks for your understanding of our reasons for the sporadic writings.  And we absolutely love your comments, even if you don’t agree as long as it is respectful.  We hope that you find our blogs an encouragement and at times a challenge to live more for Christ each day.

through His grace alone!

Sarah