Where did I go? Well, nowhere exactly; I just wasn’t HERE! Here, of course, being WordPress. Allow me to elaborate, if I may.
I think any who have been reading here for a couple of years know that, every few months I just sort of disappear for a few weeks. Sometimes I say something; sometimes I don’t. This time I said nothing, I just went POOF!
I love blogging, and honestly feel I have been called to do this as part of my personal ministry for Jesus Christ. I love the writing, of course, and I especially love the chances to interact with other believers, seekers of truth, and even those who don’t believe at all.
So, what’s your problem you say? Here it is.
I am a “doer.” I like to fancy myself as a man of action, meaning if I am not in action, I feel like I am wasting myself. An idle mind is the Devil’s playground and all that stuff. I like to see results, I like to solve problems, and I like to slay dragons. I have a real tendency to pack my life out so full that there is no wiggle room left. I pretty much work 7 days a week; to me a day off is just a day when I don’t actually go out in the field; all the other stuff I do I still do. At church I teach every Sunday night and am on the rotations for Sunday Mornings. Of course, I also have this little, “like to hang with the family,” thing going also.
I am very, very disciplined and regimented. When things are good, I more or less know what I plan to do on any given day. I map it out from 400 in the morning until 1000 at night, with not much wiggle room along the way. Time wise, everything has a place, and there is a place for everything, to use a cliche. That doesn’t mean every minute is planned; that would be impossible in my job. It just means the framework around which I build my day is very firm.
Sometimes things go haywire, especially the things of work. Programs change, requirements change, and expectations change. As the boss, and a front line manager, it falls on me and the other 25 field managers to actually make all of the new stuff work with the guys who actually put feet on the ground and do the work. So basically, we all have to be available almost constantly to get all this done through a combination of teaching, encouragement, and enforcement.
I am also very, very pragmatic and compartmentalized by nature. I pretty easily separate the various things in my life from each other. It makes it really easy for me to toss things off of the lifeboat of life when it gets overcrowded and the only answer is to jettison something so that the rest may survive.
It can’t be work. On a side note: I work because I want to. I want to eat. I want to have a vehicle. I want to have a home. You get the picture! It won’t be church or my responsibilities there for sure. It won’t be family, especially since I have one that will put up with me LOL.
That really only leaves blogging to be tossed over the side. I do, however, keep a line tied to it so I can pull it back in the boat when the storm settles.
Blessings and peace!
May 1, 2017 at 07:08
Glad you’re back, Brother, but to me you never left. May God continue to bless your ministry here and may it also be a blessing to you.
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May 1, 2017 at 07:15
Thanks Kathy. It is for sure a blessing to me!
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May 1, 2017 at 07:19
well, I don’t think it’s a matter of coming and going—because you really don’t leave a blog now do we?
Thanks to the wonders of technology and the internet—what we say and or post online has that odd effect of never ever really going away. We know from WP that if something is posted, there it sits for all eternity in someone’s reader….read or not. In 50 years, someone may find your words drifting, albeit buried deep, within and along the blogosphere. Even if WP ceases to exist, your words will be there, somewhere.
So you don’t really disappear now do you Wally, you just slow your postings and quiet your offerings.
And now to the heart of the matter…I think your blog, mine and others is indeed a written testament to your / our faith in God and of His son Jesus Christ.
It is a witness and tool of evangelism really…in a bit more passive way as people are not “forced” to read a blog or what is written–for to read is a choice.
But like myself, you are disciplined.
You, by your own admission, are a regimented person.
As am I.
In that regimentation lies the component to get the day’s to do list done—sharing the Word is a part of that regimen. In short, it is the art of sharing that is a part of that regime.
Yet there are days God leads us to quiet. The sharing is slowed as He works on the delivery system.
Like Zechariah, we are sometimes silenced by God, in all sorts of fashions, until the timing, His timing is right for our returned speech—speech on a particular subject or speech in general.
I see it like a quiet before a storm. A recharging and refocusing so we can more clearly deliver a witness that is more laser beam readied—pin-pointedly precise!
Steely—
And so my friend…I have a feeling that some great things are to be forthcoming…
How’s that for a welcome back???!!!
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May 1, 2017 at 07:21
Wow. That’s pretty good. So true, also. Our words never really do disappear do they? That’s actually a quite sobering thought.
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May 1, 2017 at 07:30
A thought of responsibility– to never be flippant or take for granted what we write about– that’s for sure
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May 1, 2017 at 08:01
Reblogged this on Talmidimblogging.
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May 1, 2017 at 08:50
Thanks brother Vincent. How’s the heart these days?
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May 1, 2017 at 16:02
You’re very welcome Brother Wally 😎 Functioning well enough to power walk/light jogging up to 33 miles weekly, praising God for every step 😍🙏🙏 next cardiologist visit is 5/19
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May 1, 2017 at 16:10
Nice!
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May 1, 2017 at 17:42
😆
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May 1, 2017 at 09:10
And, that’s the truth… :-p
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May 1, 2017 at 09:19
Hi Don!
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May 1, 2017 at 09:45
It’s prudent to take breaks, just as we’re designed for regular rests from our work times. Make the most of them!
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May 1, 2017 at 11:24
Loved that point about how we are designed too. We ought to remember that sometimes. I should, anyway. Thanks for a good mini lesson in this comment
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May 1, 2017 at 11:05
Brother Wally, I enjoy your posts so you were missed. If you need to free up some time in the future just switch to yogurt and fresh vegetables for dinner instead of wasting hours and hours barbecuing all those fatty cuts of pork and beef (can you tell I’m on a diet?) I also have more time than you because I rarely need to go to the barber anymore. 🙂
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May 1, 2017 at 11:23
That was not funny Tom.Well, the hair thing was, but not the BBQ thing.
LOL
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May 1, 2017 at 11:27
Keep BBQing Wally before your doctor puts you on Lipitor!
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May 1, 2017 at 11:46
I know right? Bless Him that thus far I have no issues.
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May 1, 2017 at 11:17
A few days ago I thought I had better check to make sure WordPress hadn’t accidentally removed by subscription to your posts. I’m glad you’re back. J.
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May 1, 2017 at 11:23
Thanks J. Sometimes life gets in the way huh?
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May 1, 2017 at 12:43
Wally, glad you are working here as the Lord has planned. This time for me comes whenever the Lord moves around the other things over which I have no control. Being a caregiver is priority. I used to think that I could write all day if I didn’t have anything else to do. Then I realized: what would I write about if that is all I did? It is life in this world, directed by the hand of God, from which our messages come. Have a blessed week.
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May 1, 2017 at 12:51
You as well Fran. And blessings and strength in your caregiver role as well
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May 1, 2017 at 16:19
THANK YOU!
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May 1, 2017 at 13:30
Welcome back
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May 1, 2017 at 13:31
Thanks James!
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May 2, 2017 at 18:02
Encouraging to hear you are very disciplined. I felt I have grown tremendously in this area and I think that my house and ministry must be in order before I blog so I understand your blogging or lack of blogging =)
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May 2, 2017 at 18:21
Thanks brother Jim. I hope you have been well?
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May 2, 2017 at 18:33
I have been well, been busy but well!
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May 12, 2017 at 06:24
I’m back too!
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May 12, 2017 at 07:06
Yes, you didn’t post of a while. I hope things are okay?
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May 12, 2017 at 07:18
Just tooo busy for my liking. I think I’ll have to write over the weekends and schedule, but I rather write fresh…hmmm. Grace! Grace!!
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May 12, 2017 at 07:47
I struggle with that issue for sure LOL. Scheduling ahead is nice when you have time to sit down and write for a good period of time.
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May 15, 2017 at 15:18
I just had to push harder today and post. I hope I keep at it for a while so I don’t lose inspiration. Its all good. God bless
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May 15, 2017 at 15:29
You too dear Sister!
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