It’s been quite the awakening more than a journey.
March 2009 I stated my first blog ‘Praying for Purpose’. And it had nothing to do with purpose but all about how much I despised where I was working. How I had to keep speaking up to defend my students. Now fast forward to May 2021 and my blog ‘Vernetta Reshell Faith Blogger’ is actually about my purpose. It only took like 12 years. But who’s counting.
At the beginning of last year I had this entire plan to move out of Texas and be closer to the church I was attending. I came back to Texas to prepare. Then the pandemic halted life as we knew it.
The next few months I realized God was shifting me and I was entering the sabbatical year I had prayed to have. With that shift came a true rebrand. My first in years.
Not only did the name change of my blog but the focus, colors and direction.
For some reason I felt God calling me to share my journey. That’s why I shared on FB (when I used my personal page but God told me to stop using that platform for personal use) as I read through the Bible.
I had no idea that many people were paying attention. I received a lot of positive feedback.
In 2020, I decided since I had nothing else to do because I couldn’t go anywhere that I would learn how to pray, fast, read the Bible better and grow closer to God. I did all that. It also awakened me to something I wasn’t expecting. That I started to feel late 2020 that the church I thought I needed to move closer to wasn’t one I was going to stay with much longer. But I kept pushing that feeling to the side. I felt I was learning too much. The issue was I was learning faster than the teaching was able to keep up with my eagerness.
My Faith Blog was my outlet. A place for me to explore topics that I’ve longed since wondered about as it relates to the Black Church. Wrestling with transitions, pivots, growth into who I was born to be.
I love blogging. Times are changing and things are not as they were. That’s okay. Being a Faith Blogger gives me a platform to share my faith in an unorthodox way so others can see it’s not a linear journey. It’s okay to question what you believed was true. It’s more important to discover what really is.
My first year as a true Faith Blogger has been such a blessing.
I haven’t shared all that God has given me but life is 100x better than it was a few years ago. I attribute that to my obedience. And this blog helped me be obedient to God’s Word because I needed to study and research for the content.
Who knew blogging would be a tool to draw me closer to God? To be in Fellowship with God? To publicly proclaim and live for God?
I didn’t. But I’m glad I never gave up on blogging. It’s been a crucial part of strengthening my faith walk.
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