Life. Faith. Jesus.

I’ve never taken a break (read: Sabbatical) from blogging the way I recently did over a month ago. It was something I was fighting but eventually gave in and took the break.

I believe it was something God was leading me to do, and I am glad that I did it.

The thing that made it so difficult was that there were things I wanted to write about, and ideas I wanted to develop.

But what baffles me now is that it’s been over a month and I have blogged only twice! Actually, it’s been nearly 2 months!

I don’t get it.

I love writing about things I think are important and worthy of thought and reflection and interaction with others. Namely, things pertaining to man’s problem, God’s provision, and how the Gospel of Jesus Christ intervenes.

Oddly, though, I have not written anything about this in the past nearly 2 months. Very #strange.

What’s even more strange is not that I haven’t written anything, but I haven’t really had the desire to write about anything.

Let me take that back, I have had the desire to be writing, but nothing has really prompted me to write.

I wonder what’s going on. Is it that I must “force” my writing out? That I must “make” myself write? Or is it that I am just in a time right now where my writing is “put on hold” to focus my time and energy on other important things?

Have you ever been in a “season” like this before?
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Want to know what’s been going on in my prayer life?

Well, I won’t tell you everything, but I will tell you this: stop blogging for a while. I suppose it’s been about a year that I’ve been thinking about this. I don’t really know what triggered it, other than God—plain and simply put.

In the past year, while I would pray in quiet time, I’ve had this re-emerging thought to break from blogging. You heard me right: a year. Well, here in the past six months it has been happening more. Moreover, the past three months has been even more intense.

Thing is, when I usually hear from God about something to this degree, I sense a pretty strong conviction. This time, it’s been very subtle and almost silent. When I pray, it doesn’t matter what I’m praying about, this thought will “introduce” itself into my mind. It’s not a strong voice, and it’s not overwhelmingly convicting. But it is persistent. This may be the softest God has spoken to me that I am aware of.

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I thought it would be good for me to explain to you all a few things going on here at SB.

As you will notice, there have been a few advertisements around here. That being said (and seen) I want to be very clear and honest with you why I am doing this.

I respect your relationship(s) and your readership to this site. I am continually humbled that anyone would return to this rag-tag website anticipating content. I am truly thankful.

Now, on to business.

Why are there advertisements on SB?

I have been thinking a lot about doing advertisements. One thing I can’t stand is a website that has advertisements of just about any random product you can think of. This is not my purpose, and you will not see that type of advertisements here.

For one, I want to offer more resources for people who visit this site. For two, I would like to make more use out of this site, and extra cash never hurts. Actually, this is one way I’m hoping to earn extra.

So if you think that you have product or a website that would benefit from advertising here on SortingBeans, contact me and we’ll talk.
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You put it in a head-lock and give it a noogie until it says “Uncle.”

Or you man-handle it like it’s nobody’s business.

I wished it were that easy.

So I didn’t get to continue my thoughts on the idea of our calling, because today I have experienced some serious problems with WordPress. I began to wonder if I got hacked.

Upon logging in to my account in hopes of writing an article, I noticed that I had over 20 comments in my spam folder, and over 100 comments in my “pending” folder.

Don’t know what “pending” is? Pending is all the spam comments that your spam filter didn’t catch.

It took me nearly an hour and a half to finally get the machine up and running smoothly. I’m not sure what the problem was.

Thanks to help from a good friend of mine, situations like these are resolved rather quickly.

But that’s not all!
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I’ve spent some time doing this lately.

More specifically, about this website.

I think I have landed on something. But first thing is first: I have to get it ready to launch.

I’ll give you a hint, though. There is a clue somewhere on this page.

C’mon, it’s not that hard to see.

So, before I launch this thing—this thing you don’t really know about—I need some help.
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