That is something my pastor said on Sunday. He was talking about how Christ calls us to share our faith. That many Christians haven’t done that for a variety of reasons, one of the biggest being fear. He reminded us that Jesus never asked us to be successful. He never told us to wait until the timing was perfect or until we felt ready.
He simply told us to go. To begin where we are.
That struck something deep in me.
For a while now, I’ve felt the need to share my faith, but I didn’t know how to go about it. I’ve tried before (more than once over the past few years) to start a faith blog, and each time I walked away feeling like I had failed.
As I sat there listening, my thoughts started to drift in a familiar direction. I told myself I would never come up with a name. That I wouldn’t have enough to say. That I would manage one or two posts and then stop, just like before.
But something different happened this time. I turned my notes over and started writing.
Every time a thought came to me, I flipped the page and wrote it down. Don’t worry, I was still listening and taking notes. But the ideas kept coming. One after another. Before I knew it, I had filled an entire page.
This morning, I looked at those notes expecting them to be a mess.
Instead, they made perfect sense.
So here I am. Beginning where I am.
Nothing about this is finished or perfect. This blog is evolving as I go. I don’t even have social media set up, and I don’t know if I will. For once, I’m not trying to figure all of that out first.
What I do know is this:
I’m going to share my faith.
I’m going to share what I’m learning and what I’m struggling with as I walk through it.
It may not always be perfect.
It may not always be the “right” way.
But it will be honest. And right now, that feels like exactly where I’m supposed to begin.
