A Step of Faith

A week ago, I made the decision to change my personal blog site. Since I've been posting here, my personal blog had become more of an afterthought, and I either needed to shut it down or change direction. With encouragement from my wife, and out of obedience to God, I opted to keep it going but change it's focus. Instead of writing about whatever popped into my head on a given day (like I do here), I would dedicate my blog to writing about things of a religious nature - post sermons, answer questions, things like that.

I kind of wrestled with direction though. I knew I'd need to change the name, but I didn't want to become one of those cheesy people who starts a blog and deludes themselves into believing that the world will immediately come knocking down the door, and so over-names their blog (I just made that phrase up) something pretentious, like "Jesus Speaking" or "Words From God" or "TruthQuest".

I decided to call it Everyday Faith.

Lame, I know. But it's honest. That's what I usually write about when I write about religion anyway.

So why am I bothering you guys with this?

Well, there's a second part to the story. I didn't just change the name and the thematic focus, I kinda added a really simple, perhaps overly presumptuous form to the site.

For speaking requests.

I've been wrestling a lot lately about getting out and speaking more to people on the topic that is closest to my heart: how God interacts with us on a daily basis, often through the smallest things. Only I have no idea how you go about doing that, and I'm not really the type of person who wants to call a thousand churches and say, "Hey! I want to come speak to your people! Book me!"

I really don't know what direction this is supposed to go. I've made grand proclamations about new ventures before, and exactly ZERO have gotten off the ground. They lacked passion, honestly, and when I lack passion I tend not to work as hard. And lest anyone fear that I've lost my mind and am quitting my day job, rest assured - I'm not. I just know I'm supposed to put myself out there and see what happens.

So there you go. It's out there, more for accountability than anything else. The fine folks who read this Patch have been great at encouraging me in my writing, and so I'm quite at ease sharing this first step with you. I know there's a next step in there somewhere, but I'm trying to be patient and let God lead me.

But if you know someone, and I mean anyone, who needs a speaker for an event - your church, your Rotary Club, your second cousin's D-n-D gamers meeting in his mother's basement - I'd be flattered if you'd point them my way. No gig is too small for me.

Mainly because small seems to be where God does his best work in my life.