This post couldn’t have come at a better time. Recently, I had been feeling very anxious with all my writing demands piling up and crashing into all the demands of just living in the real world.
Despite feeling the need to work at 100 m.p.h., I followed Mrs. McDowell’s advice and sat down and expressed to God what all my anxieties were and turned them over to him. Then for over five minutes, I tried to clear my mind, repeating, “Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.”
Those five minutes worked wonders. I was refreshed and clear-headed. I will try to keep to this new routine, and hopefully, increase my time when I just sit and listen for God.
I think the author Katy Kauffman’s experience is in nonfiction writing, but any writing, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, can be a ministry if we invite God to be our partner.
This is a speech I wrote to accompany the presentation of Bibles to the third-graders at my church and I wanted to share it because I enjoyed writing it.
How many of you know who your principal is? Sure, you know his or her name and where that person works, but do you know his favorite food? Or favorite subject? What college she went to? So you know enough about your principal to identify him or her and to say hello but not much else.
Sometimes, that’s all the more we know about God. We know He’s there and He makes stuff like nature and miracles, but we really don’t know much else.
God wants us to know him as well as you do your mom and dad and best friends. Nothing is more important than getting to know God. So God set up a blog, e-mail, and Facebook pages so we can do that.
The Bible is God’s blog. In it, God tells us about what he likes, like creating things, and what he hates, like sin. He tells us about people He’s helped because they got to know him. God posts all kinds of information about Himself on His blog in histories, poems, and essays.
He also receives e-mails, but when we e-mail God, we called it prayer. We can e-mail God about anything, even just ordinary, everyday things, and He always responds.
God also has Facebook pages. Interestingly, God uses real faces for his Facebook pages. Everybody who believes Jesus saves us from our sins is a Facebook page for God. Checking out all the Facebooks pages here in our church is a wonderful way to get to know God.
So remember to use all through of God’s electronic formats – blog, e-mail, and Facebook — and you will be working on the most important thing you can do with your life.
This post couldn’t have come at a better time. Recently, I had been feeling very anxious with all my writing demands piling up and crashing into all the demands of just living in the real world.
If you see your writing as a ministry, 
God’s Blog