Christmas has come and gone once again. I hope all of you had a wonderful time with friends and family. It has been a long and crazy year, and I want to end it by bringing all of you up to date with the kilted priest blog.
Father has blessed the work of my hands (Dueteronomy 28:12), and I want you to know what is going on and where this blog is touching lives. I have had readers in the USA, France, India, China, Vietnam, and Seychelles. It has blown me away with the ability to touch so many places and never leave home. Looking back to September and my first blog until now, and I have had 689 reads.
This is great news, but it has a down side to it. Over 689 reads and only 10 subscribers and only 6 comments? I know this is more than this Priest ever expected in so short a time. Are my messages not liked? I did not start blogging to be liked or even read. I just wanted to help someone to be encouraged and finish their race of life and not quit. But it is still encouraging to see someone likes what I write.
These letters take me hours to compose and rewrite several times before I can post them on the blog. But, these letters are from my heart and they are a labor of love and I will continue to write them. I know this is my part to play in Gods plan for me. Anyway, enough of my whining, so I will continue with my update letter.
When I started this journey I did not have any long range plan or goal. It all happened too fast for me to dream much. I was too busy trying to figure out this internet stuff anyway. I believe from the conception of this idea while mowing my field until September 24 was not more than six weeks of planning. For this country boy that is not much time to create something I did not know how to. But thanks to my step daughter, she pushed me over the edge so I could see that I really could fly.
Now as I sit here in my living room and think about my next move, and what I see myself doing over the coming months ahead. What would I like to see? First and foremost I want to make each letter more informative as my newfound gift of writing evolves.
I still laugh to myself when I think of my school years during the fifties and sixties, and what my teachers would say. I was not a very good student, especially in English class (C-D grades). English sounded like a foreign language to me. I was more interested in baseball or anything else other than English class. Oh well, it has been a long journey and now is my time to blossom and learn to write.
Another goal I would like to see this coming year is maybe going on social media of some kind. More things to learn. Ugh! Do you, my readers, think I need to be on FB or some other social media? Write me and let me know your thoughts, and I will consider it. What would be the advantages and disadvantages?
Another platform that interest me is the idea of t-shirts and other things that will allow you, to share this gospel of hope. These objects will be ministry tools for you to share with others this message of Gods love to them. I know how much this kilt prompts others to ask questions. Are you Scottish? Is this your family kilt? The t-shirts will be your method of interest to others without you having to wear a kilt.
A note of interest to you, is that I do have a family tartan in my mothers lineage five generations back. Our tartan is the Campbell Clan, and I wear it proudly. I also wear the Clark Tartan, which is called the Clergy Tartan. It is the accepted tartan for those in Ministry to wear.
Another goal is the idea of sharing this message of hope with home based churches and other small groups. We will see what doors the Lord will open in the future. This is about all this Priest can dare to hope for at this present time. I am happy to be able to post all these things I have learned these past seventy four years of life on planet earth.
I hope no one ever takes offense when I get down on Organized Religion. They have made such a mess of Gods simple message of hope and love by their man made rules and traditions (Mark 7:8). This is why we are in such a mess today. The Church has a form of Godliness but no power. I will comment more on this subject later in 2021.
We are so blessed by God and His grace and love for us, I am just without words. God loves each of us just as we are. But, His love will not leave us as we are, we will be transformed as we respond to Him. Draw close to Him and He will draw close to us (James 4:8).
I want each of you to know how much I love you and pray for you as you read these words of hope and encouragement. I also thank you for your prayers and comments as you take your precious time to read my blogs, as I sometimes get too wordy.
I will close for now and I will see you next year as God wills. It will be an exciting year for the Church, as we wait for our King to return. Marnatha. Lord Jesus.
Remember this, you will make it, just don’t give up. See you next week.
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