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I’ve always been a giver. I’ve always been a listener. And although I was pretty good at English in high school and made good grades in college, I would never have classified myself as a writer, but I have a heart for sharing.
A little over a year and a half ago, I started blogging again. It was something I did a few years ago and enjoyed it.
I ran across a training program one evening that promised step-by-step training on how to build your own website. It was something I had wanted to do again for some time. I quickly signed up.
Fast forward a little…I have had fun building my own websites, I have several, but I kept feeling like there was something more I needed to do.
It hit me one day while reading a Christian blog page that popped up on my Pinterest site that God may be nudging me to start a faith-based blog. I started really thinking about what it was that I would write.
I began asking God questions like am I really qualified? Is this something you really want me to do or is it just me? But it would not go away.
What would I write about? What could I say that others have not already said? I doubted myself. I doubted whether I could do what I felt I was being nudged to do.
One night I was lying in bed and I could not fall asleep. I started thinking about Moses and others in the Bible. They felt they were not qualified or effective or eloquent.
God was showing me that I only needed to be willing like those faithful ones. They just needed the faith to begin and God would take care of the rest.
I can tell you that every thought I could think of went through my head about not starting this website. I even “discussed” with God that I already have a few websites and one more would just be too much.
I have lain awake in bed at night for several months with floods of ideas. Sometimes I could not go to sleep until I got up and found a pen and paper and started jotting down those ideas. I felt only God could be giving these ideas to me. I have thought about this and prayed about it for months while I continued to read other faith-based blogs.
I could not get over the fact that in every faith-based blog I read there was one consistent message I kept seeing and I felt that God was speaking directly to me – “start your faith-based blog, it’s what I want you to do. I will give you the words to say.”
One post stood out in my mind more than any other and it was like the writer was talking directly to me. She stated that there are a lot of faith-based blogs out there, but not nearly enough. She went on to say that, “you may be the one person who could touch someone with your words.”
I began to think about some of my loved ones who are unsaved. They are not living right. Some are living very dangerous, destructive lives. I have tried to talk to them at one point or another. I have other family members that have talked to them.
I have prayed for them. I have prayed for God to send someone to talk to them that may be able to touch them with their words or their kindness.
I have agonized over the fact that if we lost them today, where would their soul be?
All I can do is to continue to pray for them and hope that one day they may be touched by something that someone says to them.
I finally said, “okay Lord if this is something you want me to do, then continue to lay on my heart what you’d have me to write about. Give me the words to say.”
I have to say I have a lot of ideas written down, and it’s going to take me a while to write about everything I feel that God has laid on my heart. Some of it is so simple and elementary and I don’t know why, but I know who.
I began getting more and more excited about this new website. I kept answering God that I would do this if He wanted me to.
I started visualizing what the website would look like, how I would divide it into sections, and things I would add to it. That visual has undergone many changes in my mind and on my computer screen.
It is exciting and overwhelming at the same time, but I have felt more and more that this is what I needed to do.
So, you’ll have to bear with me if you are used to an upscale, fancy website. I’m still learning so much every day.
One goal of this site is to share with others, encourage those who need encouragement, teach those who need teaching and share the love of God with everyone.
It is my sincere hope that you find something here that you enjoy and that you will come back and visit me often. If you need prayers, reach out to me. I’m here.
Another goal for this site, is that I wanted a way to reach out to others and share one of the most important things in my life and that is I am a God-fearing, born-again Christian, and one day I hope to meet the one who died on the cross for me, and for us all.
I was always quiet about my Christian faith in high school for fear of being rejected or bullied. You know what? I was bullied anyway. But because of the way I lived my life most everyone knew who I was and what I was.
I may not have been outspoken, but I tried to live my life like it really mattered and who I was living for. For me, that was important.
I wanted to know that when I meet my heavenly father face-to-face, I will hear the words that I longed to hear and that is “well done, thy good and faithful servant.”
My hope is that you feel the same way too.
I will have a place on my site for testimonies. If you’d like to share a testimony here, I would love for you to do so. Just email me at focusontheone@gmail.com with “Testimony” in the headline and I will place it here.
You don’t have to use your real name if you don’t want to, but I truly feel it is an encouragement for others to read testimonies of people who have gone through things they are currently going through.
Let’s encourage one another.
Blessings to All,
Pamela