My Little One inherited my love of verbal expression. One of the things she was really excited to try in our homeschooling adventure was the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program. She's committed to writing a story of 7500 words in the month of November and we get to count it as her Language Arts program. This isn't the first year that someone suggested I do it too, but adults have to write 50000 words and that's not going to happen at this stage of my life! However, this is the first year someone suggested that I participate in NaBloPoMo--National Blog Post Month, a blog post a day for a month.
She should never have done that...now here I am committing myself.
I spent a whole day and part of night deliberating, arguing for and against the idea. I swung from excitement to lame excuses (I don't want to be under pressure and turn out poor quality--ha!). I like to wait for the inspiration (which, by the way, means "breathing in") of the Holy Spirit. Yet I do have a commitment to myself to blog once a week. So I know that inspiration and discipline do have a meeting place.
The thing that cinched it for me was this verse that has been rolling inside me for the last few weeks. I know this always happens for a reason... The Apostle Paul was instructing Timothy, a man very young in his ministry, to "stir up the gift that was placed within you".
Stir up. Sounds a bit like choosing.
The gift placed within you. Sounds a bit like something given rather than earned, put inside you and me by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Sounds a bit like inspiration meeting discipline.
I know part of the gift placed within me is for the purpose of proclaiming hope and healing and restoration to hearts made weary by life (and perhaps by religion). Blogging is one of the ways I do that.
So I'm committing to the discipline of writing a blog post every day for the month of November. Trusting for the inspiration!
What's the gift that's been placed within you? (If you don't know, ask Him to show you. You do have one.) How can you "stir it up"?
2 Timothy 1:6-7
Sounds a LOT like inspiration meeting discipline!
ReplyDeleteOne thing discipline does is stretch us... I look forward to reading your posts.
I just kept reading, and the more I kept reading, the more I had to stop and say, "OH WOW, She's GOT IT...She's onto something AMAZING right here! This is crazy good!"
ReplyDeleteYou addressed something I've been mulling over for a while. STIR IT UP. Hahaha. Like stoking a fire. ;)