How does the Lord deliver his words of comfort and challenge to the people who need to hear them?
Oh, he has his ways!
In my last post, I described how I wrote a collection of hymns and faith songs and filed them away while the Lord assigned me other kinds of writing.
But that wasn’t the end of the music story …
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
– Philippians 4:13 (NIV)
How does a person who can barely tell a quarter note from a Quarter Pounder write a book full of original hymns and faith songs?
The Lord is kind, and as soon as he hears your cries for help, he will come. You will again see the Lord, your teacher, and he will guide you. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, you will hear a voice saying,“This is the road! Now follow it.”
From Isaiah 30:19—21 (CEV)
You have no idea how fitting this verse is for the very first post of my brand new blog!
Yes, even in such a mundane matter as setting up an author website, the Lord heard my cries for help and graciously drew me back to the right path—the path he had chosen for me.
If you’re a writer yourself, you’ve heard the sage counsel: If you want readers (or editors or agents or publishers) to discover your writing, you must have a serious website! Probably the gurus of every profession, interest group, and cause are hammering the same message. It makes sense. Nowadays the Internet is where everyone looks for all kinds of information and products. And I want people looking for the kind of material I write (hymns and faith songs, Christian dramas and skits, poetry, devotionals, puppet ministry how-tos, even mystery fiction) to find my work, don’t I?