2021 - Time to Write Again?

 It's 2021.  I haven't written a blog post since 2015.  

Why?  Multiple factors led to my desire to walk away from the page.  Let's just say life got in the way, and I never returned.  It would seem 2021 would be a good time to revisit this.  

In 2015, I went through a divorce and this really shattered my world as I knew it.  I had to learn to be independent and to enjoy it.  I am happy to say that I did learn many lessons that year, and wound up becoming friends with a great man who would later become my husband.  We learned to appreciate each other's gifts and talents, and he is now working in ministry and writes books.  Maybe I didn't think we both needed to be writers, so I stepped back.  

I'm ready to write again, but I am lost as to what to write.  I had started a post about a Netflix series, Cobra Kai, but the material wound up so cheesy I deleted it.  Of course, anything about that series would seem a bit cheesy, given the source material, but I will reserve my judgement, in case there are some fans of Johnny Lawrence or Daniel LaRusso.  

So, I just am starting by writing down thoughts and thinking about how life today can line up with Jesus.  That's really the message I want to learn and then convey.  So much of my time is spent just thinking of my own things, and not thinking about heavenly things. I do hope that I can find my way back to thinking of Jesus and learning to see the world through His lens.  

Jesus asked an expert of the Old Law what a man must to do to inherit eternal life.  The man was asking Jesus, but Jesus just turned the question back to the man who did know the answer.

"He answered, 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" ~Luke 10:27

The way is simple in theory.  Love God.  Love People.  This is not so easy to do in life.  It is way more difficult to love people and show mercy when a person deserves punishment, but that is exactly what Jesus taught.  He showed us all mercy in that He died in our place when we deserved to die for our sins.  We must in turn show that kind of mercy to others.  

Read more about Jesus's definition of mercy in Luke 10:25-37.