But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray. Luke 5:16
For nearly two years before I started publishing this blog, I was writing every morning, just for myself. Writing helps me process life and so, I was journaling just to get me through my own struggles at the time. Every morning, I would get up early to withdraw from the world to pray, read, and write. Once I began publishing my daily journal, I’m sure I lost a certain level of honesty in what I wrote. If you know others are going to read your journal, you just don’t write the same.
Well, I’ve realized lately that I’ve got some things to work through that require my full time and attention. So, I am going to take some time off from publishing new material every morning. It’s been several years since I’ve taken a break, and it’s time for another, so I can withdraw once again to my own desolate place to pray. I’ll still be getting up early every morning to work on my relationship with God, you just won’t see it.
Still, I know that some of you have become dependent on the blog for your own daily devotions, so daily, I’ll be publishing reruns, going back to the early days of the blog. It is my hope that you continue to use the blog to withdraw to your own desolate place to meet with God.
I will be back publishing daily new material sometime. I just don’t know if that’s going to be in a few days or in a few months. Some things can’t be hurried. For now though, it’s time to withdraw to my own desolate place.