Hello, friends. I am sorting further through my ideas. Right now, none of my inclinations seem to want to be discarded, so my best thinking is to expand this space into a creativity blog on several levels ( Thanks, Tina, for the great verse. It really gave me a lot to think on. 🙂) .
Of course, the goal of each will be to glorify the ultimate Creator. Without His hand to guide, none of this could even be.
Now, any thoughts of how to monetize anything feel so irreconcilable with my circumstances, this blog, and just plain who I am that I have pretty much taken them off the table until or unless God shows me otherwise.
I look at you all as my friends. Any post motivated by less than just purely interacting with you for the sake of fellowship in Christ feels disingenuous to me.
Perhaps, I am overly squeamish or overly principled. I don’t know. But, there it is. I am nothing if not honest. 😏
So, leaving that aside, I will say from here you will still see much poetry, random thoughts, exhortations, music sharing…
But, interspersed will probably be some original recipes I have tinkered around with over the years. I am excited to begin introducing this venture a little down the road when I have the time to get in the kitchen and get good pictures to accompany.
I will also sprinkle in tidbits of trivia where appropriate, though I will attempt to keep myself from rambling too long. 😁
And lastly, as you will see a few clicks down, I will continue my art.
To be frank, that pursuit is something I am not so sure was necessarily what a typical blogger would call a rousing success the other day, if I sank back into doubts and stats checking. I am chagrined to admit I did indulge a bit of fretting as I looked and saw response was perhaps a bit smaller than I was used to.
That said, I do appreciate the kind encouragements I received. They heartened my soul and renewed the feeling there is something in opening the door that is God directed.
So…the following is not attached to a poem but, rather, a song. As well as inspired by an image I spotted in the video to said song.
Now, to a bit on my introduction to the artists…
Petra was another of those groups I recall my folks introducing me to via vinyl when I was very young. Their lyrics appealed to my poetic sensibilities; their beautiful voices and instruments had my little self in awe.
I may have made brief mention before of pretend concerts my brother and I would put on to their records. 🙂
Usually, in those days, it was thanks to my dad that the house had much spiritual music going at all, but it was a rare and lovely moment when my mom would want to play or talk about their song “Road to Zion”.
It was the one that really moved her and, in listening with her, a chance to see she really was seeking Him in her heart of hearts.
And so, from there, it obviously became very special to me.
And yet, over the years and all the layers they brought, both the painful and the good, I had not thought of it in a long while.
Then, for some inexplicable reason, there it was a couple of days ago, resting on my soul, playing in my head as though I were back at the old townhouse we lived in then, listening to the album on the old turntable we had.
And I just had to look it up, drink in the truth of those words. Next thing I knew, I spotted an image I thought was really cool and I picked up my sketch book and started doodling.
The following is the result. I titled it, unsurprisingly, “Road to Zion”. Hope you enjoy both it and the song. Thanks for reading, dear friends! Be blessed! ❤
