I think we all are familiar with this word. Webster defines it as:
“an interruption in time or continuity: BREAK: especially: a period when something (such as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted”
That’s what I think is happening for me, I’m beginning a new season. For the pat 14+ years I’ve been writing a blog. I started out posting daily… then every other day… and finally, every third day. Also, during that time 16 books have been published. I’m not saying this to pat myself on the back nor give myself permission to provide an excuse… it is what it is.
I think I’m entering a season of preparation and growing in understanding. At least that’s what I think. No, I won’t stop writing. Writing does define Who I am, at least partially – I, like you, am not one dimensional. And I do love to write, but for the first time I seem to be direction-less. Completing the last book in this third series, by now I would know the next series – I don’t. Granted it could be argued that I write about the same spiritual issues. No argument. I believe we are never done discovering all that each issue is, that we continually grow in understanding and application. As a result, though the topic may be the same, the writing isn’t. It’s always a new way of understanding, a new perception, a greater application.
‘My’ writing is designed in a question-based format. I provide my thinking as a counterpoint for the reader to discover, define, refine what they believe. The point in this is to help the reader to continue to discover and grow. Basically I’m a teacher who is also involved in learning and as iron sharpens iron, everyone grows. It’s not a contest. Different understandings are not threats. I like to not think in terms of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ when it comes to understanding. Can both be ‘right’? Can both be ‘wrong’? As long as we involve, seek to have the Holy Spirit involved… truth will be the result.
“But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth [full and complete truth]. For He will not speak on His own initiative, but He will speak whatever He hears [from the Father—the message regarding the Son], and He will disclose to you what is to come [in the future].”
John 16:13
Hiatus is just that. A time to refresh, to study, to grow… to think. At least this is what I think on this lovely fall day in September. Will the time be lengthened? Will it be shortened? No idea. But I want to follow where I think I’m being led. I totally trust the Lord that if I’m wrong or in the wrong timing, He will correct me. Correction is always a positive because the Lord doesn’t condemn, criticize, blame, or shame – He always helps us to understand.
Ergo and Thus… don’t expect any further writing-teaching until 2023, realizing that we move according to the Lord’s plans.
