Today’s Southern Fried Sundays edition is running down to the wire. I have been in a funk today – ever get like that? I haven’t been able to shake it. I didn’t go to church today so maybe I’m feeling a little spiritually bankrupt? BBC will be out of school in a few weeks and I guess I have a little anxiety about being ready for that – is that normal?
I am also feeling a little bit of a block coming on in regard to this blog. I feel like I’ve lost my way on it the past few weeks. What is the purpose of this blog? Is it a worthy purpose to continue? Does that purpose align with the friends that I have attracted to read it? What features or topics do my readers enjoy most?
And so on the questions go off in my mind. I guess the best way to describe today is that I’ve lost my peace. After writing all this at this late hour, I felt led to Lamentations 3…particularly this passage:
17 You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten prosperity.
18 And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the LORD.”
19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
The wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul still remembers
And sinks within me.
21 This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
22 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
24 “ The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
“ Therefore I hope in Him!”
Wow! Amazing that I think I am so unique and here are my thoughts almost verbatim spilled out in the Word. Thanks for allowing me to be vulnerable.
Cheerful posts coming Monday and Tuesday (with a giveaway), I promise…
Have a blessed week.
~Southern Fried Gal
May 17, 2010
Yes, I have definitely experienced many days where I feel like I’m in a “funk” – it tends to happen in the beginning of the week when I know I’m facing 5 long days of my DH working long hours and I’ll be watching my son all day, every day. Sometimes it is very physically and emotionally draining. These are fantastic verses, though, and thanks for sharing them. You are not alone!
May 17, 2010
You’re experiencing the same thing so many other people and bloggers experience, I certainly have. You express it so well too! It is a good thing to reevaluate your purpose every now and then and let God lead you through that. I hope you find peace in your discernment.
May 17, 2010
You’re experiencing the same thing so many other people and bloggers experience, I certainly have. You express it so well too! It is a good thing to reevaluate your purpose every now and then and let God lead you through that. I hope you find peace in your discernment.
May 17, 2010
Yes, we all get in a funk, that is what makes the good time so great. I am in the middle of menopause, etc so my mood is flucuating, normally I am a positive thinking person, but this thing has thrown me for a loop. I know I will return to myself, but… for now it is the way it is. Just hang in and keep you head up.
xo
Robin
May 17, 2010
You sound perfectly normal to me. Your blog is supposed to be good for YOU. If it isn’t then don’t do it. I am new to blogging and am so glad it wasn’t around when I was younger. I would have felt all this pressure about it. I don’t take it too seriously so I’m still enjoying it. Give yourself a hug, kiddo.
May 17, 2010
I love your blog, and I think your feelings are perfectly normal! Maybe if you take a week to regroup and relax, you’ll have some more inspiration.
May 17, 2010
I love your blog… visit it almost daily looking for either decorating inspiration or entertaining tales of BBC!… oh and there a tempting recipes sometimes too!
I definitely understand the funk… but know you’re doing GOOD STUFF here!
PS — Love the pics of Arkansas too… I don’t get to see that enough anymore!