closing this book

Focus is one of my greatest strengths (and weaknesses, for that matter).  I am not a very good multi-tasker, especially when it comes to anything in the intellectual world.  I cannot read two books at once, nor can I simultaneously maintain more than one journal.  I crave closure on one lesson or season before I can fully enter a new focus.  When I started this blog, take the pen, I was literally giving the pen to Christ.  I knew nothing about what the contents of the blog would hold, I had no particular vision, nor did I have a continuous theme throughout the posts.  For a focused writer this was quite an accomplishment.  I have been a free spirited writer, completely guided by the voice and revelation of the Holy Spirit.  In that spirit of freedom, I had no end mark nor goal in mind, but from the beginning of this writing experience I knew the end would be clear.

And that time has come.

You see, there have been such significant life changes since my husband has returned from jail that the contents of what I will next be writing about are far too precious, far too marvelous, and far too wonderful to be included within the same pages that contain such painful experiences, as enlightening and incredible and life changing as they were.  Psalm 18:19 says, "He brought me into a spacious place.  He rescued me because He delighted in me."  I believe we have been yet again rescued out of our pain and brought into a fresh and spacious place full of new life, new hope, and new excitement. A place where the mistakes of the past have been forgiven, the wounds of the past have been healed, and the chains of bondage in which we were so entangled have been broken once and for all.  Therefore, I am officially closing this book.

But I can assure you that I am only closing this particular book so I can open another.

A new book.