I cannot begin to tell you how many times I wanted to get past what I thought was a failed attempt at writing a book series about my faith walk; I did it mainly because the Lord put that challenge in my lap and said to run with it. Initially, I thought it was my ticket to not only exercising my gifts and talents the Lord gave me to write and share my faith with others, but also to help me out financially. Boy was I wrong.
It’s more than obvious now after almost four years since I released my first book in the WITDWF series, that this was never supposed to help me out financially. In fact, I didn’t break $100 in royalties until last year. Even though I wrote a second book in the series, plus also two devotionals (one that was illustrated and cost a lot to make), nevertheless, nothing came out of it.
I was led to continue in my biblical studies this whole time in grad school/seminary (Liberty University School of Divinity), after graduating from Stockton in December, 2021 with a BA in Latin and the Romance Languages (French, Spanish), and with Minors in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Jewish Studies. But I do not want to get too ahead of the story here. What I have decided to do, is not write the third book of the series to publish it in book form, but to just share it here on my blog page. I also will do this with the other writing project that has been spinning around in my head for some time, dealing with God and His Word, the Most High God, His Son, the role of the Holy Spirit, and where the Body of Christ was to fit in all of what He planned to do, until the Time of the End and the commencement of the coming Judgment.
If anyone has written a book, or a long enough paper in college (the longest one I’ve done so far was about 30+ pages; most have been 15-25+pages), and if you have done it several times over for each class, you know after a while how time consuming and tiring it can be to complete the task. Of course, when the assignment is accomplished and all your hard work pays off with a good enough grade you can be satisfied with, it not only gives you peace, but also it honors God in finishing the task He called you to accomplish in the first place.
I do not pretend to be the world’s best writer/blogger/author; I’m far from it. But–I do want to continue to be obedient to the call that was put on my heart to do for the LORD God. So, even though I am not completing my work in book form, at least I am willing to share it on my blog page, and on social media, for others to hopefully be encouraged, strengthened, and blessed by. I am one not full of fanciful words; I am rather plain and simple most of the time, and I do eventually get to the point of each part of the story I will share with you, so be patient. I pray that you will get something out of what I share with you. My faith walk has not been an easy one; then again, whose faith walk is ever easy, when Adonai Elohim is at the helm and directing our steps?
Some parts of my faith walk will be surprising, especially to those who have known me for most of my life; others who have not known me too long, some of what I share may not sound too extraordinary. But everything I do share with you, is the TRUTH; I need not embellish or dramatize anything in order for you the reader to be impressed in any way. I will share with you what has happened to me since the end of January, 2020, up until the present day. If you need to catch up on how it all began with me, I suggest to get my first two books in the WITDWF series; it will make much more sense to you as I move forward and share the rest of my faith journey. You will see just how far I’ve also come and grown spiritually, and how the challenges of the Lord have gotten a bit more difficult along the way, especially in the last year or so.
If you decide to follow along with me while I share my faith journey, I thank you. Please make sure to like my posts, subscribe for the emails so you don’t miss any of my future blog posts. I will try and write a couple of times each week (don’t want to overload myself or you–we are all busy with life and what we each have to do); I’ll just trust in the Holy Spirit to lead and guide me in all that He wants me to share with you in each blog post.
Again, thank you in advance for following me and taking the time out to read my faith journey in these posts.
Walking in the Dark with Faith 