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How Journaling Can Deepen Your Spiritual Life as a Single Older Introverted Christian Woman
Can we all agree that the personal, quiet practice of journaling (and, yes, keeping a diary) was made for us introverted souls?

We live in a noisy (and broken) world, and it can be hectic to find a quiet place to connect with God, gather our thoughts, lay out all our emotions, and simply be. For many of us single older introverted Christian women, journaling is the key to unlocking a deeper, more intimate relationship with God.

Distinctions are often made between journaling and keeping a diary. Personally, I think they’re the same thing or at least similar. For the sake of this post, I will use the term journaling to refer to both.

Why Journaling is Especially Powerful for Us Single, Older, Introverted Christian Women

As introverts, you and I know that we think a lot, with a tendency to overthink things. And we process things internally. Journaling naturally fits our need for quiet solitude, deep reflection, and introspection.

Journaling suits our reflective nature. And as private people, our journals are our sacred, peaceful space where we can reflect on God’s love for us, and write out our thoughts and prayers. It also serves to mark our spiritual growth and progress.

Journaling can boost our spiritual life by helping us gain spiritual clarity, heal emotionally, and it can provide us with a more structured way to deepen our faith.

Journaling or keeping a diary helps your spiritual growth in solitude because it gives you a private, uninterrupted space to engage with God on a personal level. This is important for us introverts because we often prefer one-on-one or intimate settings, and journaling allows for that connection without the need for external socialization.

Our personal quiet time with God is vital as we grow older, and when we take the time to quiet our busy mind, write down our anxious emotions, it can help us heal and grow while in solitude.

When we know that we’re the only ones, apart from God, who will see and read our journal entries, it helps us to be vulnerable with God. We’re free to express our deepest thoughts and feelings, whether it’s about loneliness, joy, or struggles in faith, in a safe, non-judgmental way. This freedom helps foster emotional and spiritual healing.

I struggle with group sharing; in fact, I struggle with group anything. My journaling practice has helped me to express myself better, if only in the pages of my diary, and helps me to be more honest with God because my diary is my safe space.

See your journal as your private sanctuary for honest dialogue with God. It’s where you can express your doubts, fears, and joys without judgment, and as you continue, you’ll find that your prayers become more intimate and more authentic. I can testify to that.

How Journaling Deepens Your Spiritual Life & Heals Your Emotions

Our written prayers are extensions of our spoken ones. When we write them down, we’re able to articulate them, and in the process, we’re able to work through whatever questions and doubts the Holy Spirit brings to our minds. Writing our prayers in the pages of our journals keeps them all in one place and provides a record that we can refer to of how God works in our lives and answers our prayers.

Journaling is a pathway to reflect on areas of our lives that we’re struggling with, for self-discovery, healing, and growth.

It’s how we can process and navigate through the challenges of not only being single but of being single, aging women. Our journals become a trusted place to grieve our losses, and confide our fears and our loneliness to God. Writing about our struggles and seeking God’s comfort through our journals can be a means of emotional healing.

Not only that, but it’s also where we write out our letters and words of praise and gratitude to God. This further increases our gratitude and allows the Holy Spirit to guide us and clearly show us our next steps, especially when dealing with decisions about career, ministry, or personal life goals.

Through introspection and journaling, we can reflect on our unique gifts and calling. Journaling helps us reaffirm our self-worth as a cherished child of God, independent of marital status or career, reinforcing our purpose within the Christian faith. Journaling allows for a clearer perspective on where God is leading us. We can celebrate our dependence on God and explore our purpose and identity in Christ.

Through the structure and routine of journaling, accompanied by prayer and reading the Bible daily, we stay consistent in our walk with God. It’s a way to commit to a daily or weekly practice of spiritual reflection, even during busy or emotionally challenging times.

We can use journaling as a tool for Bible Study and meditation. Record insights from your scripture readings, explore how verses apply to you and to your specific life stage, and use the pages to meditate on God’s word, turning study into a personal written conversation with the Holy Spirit.

Practice recognizing God’s presence by regularly writing down answered prayers, daily blessings, and moments of grace; this way, you train your heart to recognize God’s hand in your everyday life, cultivating a deep sense of gratitude and awareness of His constant presence.

If you’re confident and want to leave your journals for others to read, it can become your legacy of faith. As you continue to record God’s blessings, favours, and teachings in your journal, you transform it into a spiritual legacy. It can serve as a testament to your enduring faith, a record of God’s faithfulness throughout your life, that could potentially inspire your descendants or whomever you decide to leave your journals to.

Practical Tips for Journaling as a Single, Older Introverted Christian Woman
- Pick a Notebook and Pen:
  If you’re like me and get intimidated by fancy journals, pick a simple exercise (school composition) book. I prefer ruled pages, so school exercise books work well for me. I cover them with gift wrapping paper with colourful prints, or sometimes I cover them with a simple brown paper cover and decorate it with collages. Buy whatever pens you’re comfortable using. Don’t journal with pencils; however, if you’re into sketching and drawing, pencils are okay. But if you want what you’ve written to last and not fade, then I’d recommend pens. Use different coloured pens, or stick to one colour, whatever works for you. I use black pens exclusively, and blue when I’m writing down Bible verses and quotes. I highlight things I want to stand out.
- Create a Peaceful Environment:
  You can journal anywhere as long as people aren’t looking over your shoulder and reading what you’ve written. When journaling at home, you can create a calm space for journaling, such as choosing a quiet spot, lighting a candle, or listening to calming instrumental worship music. This helps make the practice feel like a sacred ritual. If your home is noisy, like mine, praying before you sit down to write definitely helps. I often pick a time when everyone has settled in for the night, say a little prayer, and write.
- Set Realistic Goals for Your Journaling Practice:
  I suggest setting goals for a few minutes a day, a specific number of pages, or a certain number of times a week. Or just write down as the Holy Spirit leads you. It doesn’t have to be perfect or lengthy—just consistent.
- Incorporate Bible Verses and Reflections:
  Journaling is richer and deeper when accompanied by your daily spiritual practice of prayer and reading the Bible. Write a Bible verse that stood out to you in your journal, reflect on it and then journal your thoughts and prayers related to it. This helps you connect Scripture with your written words and helps you clarify your personal insights, and encourages and enhances spiritual growth.
- Use Prompts to Get Started:
  You can visit some of the blogs and posts I’ve included in the resources below for prompts to help you if you’re stuck. Or, you can simply search the Web using the following phrases: “journaling prompts for Christian women,” or “introverted Christian women journaling ideas.”
  - Here are a few examples of journaling prompts:
    
    “What is one area of my life where I need God’s guidance today?”
    
    “How have I seen God’s faithfulness in my life recently?”
    
    “What is a prayer I feel led to write out today?”
    
    “What am I grateful for in this season of my life?”
How to Stay Consistent in Your Journaling Practice
- Make It a Habit:
  You’ve got to create a system where you make journaling part of your daily or weekly routine. If you have a mobile phone, you can set an alarm for a certain time each day, or every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It doesn’t have to be a specific time each time. It just has to be a time when you know you won’t be disturbed.
- Be Graceful with Yourself:
  Don’t be discouraged if you miss a day or don’t have the words to write. Life happens. Journaling is a personal and grace-filled practice, and there’s no wrong way to do it. Keep up with your daily prayer and Bible reading practice, and tell God honestly about how you’re struggling to find time to journal, and you’ll be surprised by how He allows you free time to write.
Top Christian Journaling Blogs & Resources

Here are a few Christian and faith-journaling blogs (or blog-style resources) that focus substantially on journaling — prayer journaling, Bible journaling, spiritual formation through writing, etc. Some are more creative, some more disciplined — but all are good models or sources to draw from.

• Journal Keeping by Luann Budd
Spiritual-formation blog by Luann Budd with decades of experience. Her site is very journaling-centric and deeply reflective.
• Well-Watered Women – “Journal the Word”
Gretchen Saffles writes about journaling Scripture, prayers, and praises as a way to know God more intimately.
• Well-Watered Women – “20 Journaling Prompts for Spiritual Growth”
A great prompt list for journaling with God-focused reflection.
• LivingPraying.com – “Spiritual Journaling for the Christian”
A practical guide to what spiritual journaling is and how to begin.
• Rebekah R. Jones – Bible Art Journaling
Tutorials, devotions, and creative Bible journaling.
• Christian Art Journaling by Bev Jessup
Community + blog for creative journaling, prophetic art, and faith through art.
• Godsy Girl – “How to Journal as a Christian Woman”
A warm, structured approach to journaling faith, examining life, and hearing God.
• The Daily Grace Co. – “Reflecting on God Through Journaling”
Encourages combining Scripture study + journaling + reflection.
• My Top 7 Christian Journaling Practices (RJ Christian Coaching)
Practical journaling practices: prayer, reflection, praise, Scripture, etc.
• Tirzah Magazine – “Journal Prompts for Christian Women”
A post full of 30+ journaling prompts tailored for Christian women.
• Nicole O’Meara – “Journaling God’s Faithfulness”
10 prompts for remembering God’s faithfulness, building trust, and creating a faith “memorial.”
• Cathy McIntosh – “Spiritual Journals — A 4-Step Formula”
A more structured, self-examination-oriented journaling method for Christians.
• Hispalette – “Creative Worship 101: Bible Journaling for Beginners”
A gentle, creative intro to Bible journaling that emphasizes relationship over perfection.
• Adorned in Armor – “These 5 Journaling Secrets Transformed My Relationship With God”
Personal reflections on how journaling became a safe space for prayer, healing, and growth.
• Saving Grace Blog – “Journaling Your Faith”
Ideas for integrating Bible study and journaling into a devotional rhythm.
• BibleJournalingMadeSimple.com
Blog with approachable Bible-journaling content and decision-making reflections.

Your Turn

I particularly encourage you, my fellow single, older, introverted Christian woman, to view journaling as a tool and a safe space for self-reflection, prayer, and spiritual growth. Ultimately, journaling provides a structured and deeply personal avenue for self-reflection and spiritual growth, perfectly suited for us introverted women who find strength and solace in quiet contemplation and private devotion.

Take a moment to reflect: How can journaling bring you closer to God today? Start small, but start today, and watch your spiritual life grow. Journaling doesn’t need to be intimidating. It’s simply a personal, quiet way to engage with our faith and with God.

Used prayerfully, journaling can be a transformative practice.

Leave a comment with your thoughts or share your favourite journaling prompts.

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24/11/2025
The Conversation – Should Joan Didion’s therapy notes to her husband about their daughter have been published?

Gemma Nisbet, Curtin University
Joan Didion died, aged 87, in 2021. When a new volume of her diaries was announced, anticipation was high: her personal nonfiction is the foundation of her formidable literary legacy. But as details emerged, readers began to question the ethics of its publication.

Billed as offering “astonishingly intimate” insights, Notes to John recounts conversations with Didion’s psychiatrist between December 1999 and January 2003. It draws on a series of letters addressed to Didion’s husband, fellow writer and frequent collaborator, John Gregory Dunne.

And it is not only Didion and Dunne’s lives that are revealed in the book’s pages, but also their only child’s. Indeed, Didion had begun her therapy sessions at the urging of her then-30-something daughter, Quintana, who was experiencing an acute mental health crisis and struggling with alcohol addiction.

As the short, unattributed introduction notes, the book draws from “a collection of about 150 unnumbered pages […] found in a small portable file” near the author’s desk after her death. (Other contents included “a list of guests at Christmas parties” and “computer passwords”.)

This material went on to form part of the Didion/Dunne archive at the New York Public Library, with “no restrictions” on access. But it has been reported that Didion did not leave specific instructions for how it should be handled. The trustees of Didion’s literary estate, literary editor Lynn Nesbit, and two of her longtime editors, Shelley Wanger and Sharon DeLano, made the decision to publish.

At least some those close to her have subsequently expressed disquiet about its publication. Numerous reviewers have confessed to feeling “discomfited” and voyeur-like while reading.

Would Didion have wanted us to read this book? And should it have been published if not?

Ethics of posthumous publication

Posthumous publication has long been a source of literary controversy. There is no shortage of examples of work published against an author’s wishes after their death.

Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson and – perhaps most notoriously – novelist Franz Kafka are among the prominent writers who left explicit instructions for their unpublished work to be destroyed following their passing, only for it to later appear in print.

Sometimes such issues arise even when the author is still living. The 2015 publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman – marketed as a sequel to her only other published novel, the 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird – sparked concern that the then-elderly Lee had been coerced into reversing her long-held stance that she would never publish again.

The controversy was heightened by the fact Go Set a Watchman received decidedly mixed reviews. In some readers’ eyes, its publication tarnished both Lee’s literary legacy and the reputation of To Kill a Mockingbird’s heroic lawyer, Atticus Finch, who is depicted as less than righteous in Go Set a Watchman.

This suggests the way such debates are often weighed in terms of public opinion. As Didion herself once observed:

This question of what should be done with what a writer leaves unfinished goes back to, and is conventionally answered by, citing works we might have lost had the dying wishes of their authors been honored.

We are, then, perhaps more receptive to potentially unauthorised posthumous publications if the result is a literary masterpiece. We may feel less forgiving when the work is of less certain quality.

The role of the writer

Didion did publish her own thoughts on this subject. A near-lifelong devotee of Ernest Hemingway, she criticised the posthumous publication of work left unfinished when he died in 1961.

In a 1998 New Yorker article, she noted Hemingway’s disdain for such practices, quoting a letter he’d written in 1952 to an author working on a book about his early career:

Writing that I do not wish to publish, you have no right to publish. I would no more do a thing like that to you than I would cheat a man at cards or rifle his desk or wastebasket or read his personal letters.

Didion also saw in Hemingway’s famously precise prose style further evidence of the wrongheadedness of such endeavours. Hemingway was a writer for whom seemingly minor points of grammar, syntax and punctuation were deeply consequential. As Didion wrote,

This was a man to whom words mattered. He worked at them, he understood them, he got inside them.

In her telling, the power of his writing arose from his exacting control over his craft: over what was included, but also what was left out. To make decisions on such matters without the input of the author was, she argued, nothing less than “a denial of the idea that the role of the writer in his or her work is to make it”.

A matter of style

Like Hemingway, Didion was a master stylist, known for the crystalline elegance of her prose and her investment in questions of writerly craft. There can be a mistaken tendency to think of autobiographical writing as straightforwardly confessional – simply opening a vein onto the page – but this was never Didion’s way.

Even when her writing felt emotionally raw and self-revelatory, it was always finely wrought, informed by those lessons from Hemingway about the power of deliberate omission. This was, after all, a woman sufficiently private that she kept her treatment for breast cancer secret for years from everyone but Dunne.

Many of the hallmarks of Didion’s writerly style are present in Notes to John: the fragmentary quality, the clarity of her prose, even snakes as recurrent image. But in recounting this emotionally fraught subject matter at little temporal remove, she becomes direct to the point of bluntness.

At one point, for example, Didion’s psychiatrist praises her “extraordinary insight” into her relationship with her own mother. She responds:

Extraordinary or not […] it’s not much help in just getting on with life. It’s even counterproductive, considering that my mother is now 89. It’s not as if we’re going to resolve anything by confronting this.

Of course, it soon becomes apparent Didion’s relationship to her mother is highly relevant to how she has parented her daughter. If, as one of Didion’s most widely quoted lines puts it, she wrote to “find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means”, in Notes to John, that process is seemingly very much a work in progress.

All of this contributes to the sense of reading something not intended to be published in anything like its current form – and thus not yet rising to the status of masterpiece. Didion would go on to write about at least some of this subject matter in later books, particularly 2011’s Blue Nights, which chronicles her grief after Quintana’s death in 2005, less than two years after Dunne’s passing. But the way this material is handled in Blue Nights is markedly different.

Where Notes to John moves in a chronological fashion through time, Blue Nights mimics the workings of memory with its non-linearity. Notes to John feels, formally speaking, like exactly that: a series of notes or journal entries covering a specific span of time. Blue Nights, however, takes advantage of the expansive, hybrid possibilities of the essay to cast its net wider and tell a fuller story about love, parents and children, guilt and grief.

Notably, in Blue Nights, Didion does discuss Quintana’s diagnoses with conditions including borderline personality disorder, but largely elides the specific nature of her addiction. In Notes to John, it is faced head on and discussed in detail.

Didion was a writer known for her obliqueness – for her mastery of what the Irish writer Brian Dillon calls the essayists’ “sidelong glance”; that is, a way of illuminating difficult subject matter by approaching it indirectly.

Notes to John’s forthrightness is thus a contrast to Didion’s classic nonfiction. There, her narratives often proceed by a logic of association, asking readers to make connections via metaphor and to fill in the gaps to see how this relates to that.

In the space of a single chapter in Blue Nights, for example, Didion goes from recounting Quintana’s wedding day to recalling the family’s home in suburban Los Angeles to reflecting on the process of getting a New York driver’s licence when they later moved east.

There’s discussion of a psychiatric text about suicide from the 1930s, a quote from the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, and the image of Quintana in 2003, “in an induced coma, breathing only on a respirator” during “the first in a cascade of medical crises that would end twenty months later with her death”.

This mode of storytelling is quintessential Didion. It can give rise to accusations of ambiguity or evasiveness – charges levelled at her work more than once. But it also has the potential to protect an author and the people around them as they share intimacies, keeping them firmly in control of what is revealed, and not.

Marital eavesdropping

Notes to John is also troubled by a question of intended readership. One of the people responsible for its publication – Didion’s agent Lynn Nesbit, also one of her literary trustees – has acknowledged this material “wasn’t written to be published”. Its title makes clear it was written for an audience of one: for Dunne.

This is also evident stylistically, in its second-person narration directed at a “you” so familiar with the people and events it mentions that Didion doesn’t need to explain throwaway references to “the Nick narrative” or someone called Marian. Footnotes have been inserted to clarify that the former refers to Dunne’s strained relationship with his older brother, while the latter was Quintana’s boss at a magazine. Their presence emphasises that we are eavesdropping on intimate martial conversations.

The portrait of Didion that emerges is thus startlingly vulnerable: we see her frailties, anxieties and doubts – particularly regarding her and Dunne’s parenting of Quintana, who they adopted as a newborn – far more directly than in her other published writing.

Perhaps there is value in this: another of Didion’s literary trustees, her longtime editor Shelley Wanger, has said she hoped the book’s unguarded quality would offer a corrective to Didion’s somewhat chilly public image.

I can also see that Didion’s candour may provide comfort to readers dealing with similar difficulties. Notes to John has much to say that is resonant and truthful about depression, anxiety, addiction and the grinding difficulties of supporting a loved one through such challenges.

“You and your husband are going through hell,” Didion’s psychiatrist tells her during a discussion of “a hard weekend” in which she and Dunne had worried for Quintana’s safety. “You can only love her,” the doctor says. “You can’t save her.”

Ethical responsibilities

I am less inclined to agree with those who suggest the ethical ramifications of publishing this material are less relevant because Didion, Dunne and their daughter are no longer alive to suffer the pain or embarrassment of exposure.

Life writing scholar G. Thomas Couser has argued that while death could “seem to suggest utter invulnerability to harm” when it comes to being written about, it may actually “be the state of ultimate vulnerability and dependency”, given that the deceased can offer neither consent nor self defence.

From this perspective, Notes to John’s depiction of Quintana is particularly troubling. Readers gain an intimate view of what must have been some of her most vulnerable moments as she struggles with addiction and mental ill-health.

We watch – through the eyes of her loving, fretful and perhaps overprotective mother – as she fumbles, relapses and at times, says things to her parents it seems likely she’d have lived to regret.

We see mother and daughter’s extreme closeness, perhaps even codependency (“You and Quintana had been for too long two people in the same skin,” the doctor observes).

We also see Didion’s guilt at what she regards as her culpability for her child’s inability to cope with life, in part for the way she has projected her own at-times debilitating anxieties onto her. “I had always been afraid we would lose her,” Didion admits.

All of this frequently makes for devastating reading. But it also gives the clear sense that Didion recognised her daughter as what Couser terms “a vulnerable subject” – and so strove to protect her, in her published writing as in her life.

Frozen in time

Notes to John peters out in January 2003, following Didion’s account of a fractious joint psychiatry session with Quintana.

As readers, we know how things will end: with a woman mourning both her husband and daughter, and turning to writing to try – as she always has – to make sense of it all. In the pages of these journals, however, she is frozen in time: “I was trying to keep her alive,” she says of Quintana. “Because she was killing herself day by day.”

Should Notes to John have been published? Or should it have been left to the relative obscurity of the archive, where it would have been read by Didion scholars, biographers and super fans, rather than a potential audience of millions?

From an ethical standpoint, I think the latter option would have been more defensible. But it’s also true that this revealing, raw and often hauntingly moving little book will stay with me – in large part for the complex portrait of Didion’s guilt and devotion to her daughter that it reveals.

If this article has raised issues for you, or if you’re concerned about someone you know, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Gemma Nisbet, Lecturer in Professional Writing and Publishing, Curtin University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Why is this article here?

Joan Didion’s On Keeping A Notebook from her first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was the first published writing from a recognised writer that affirmed, for me, the practice of keeping a notebook. I’ve kept a notebook (wishing for this one) since I started high school; it’s one of those things I feel I must do.

Although I’ve never read any of her books (every time I visit my favourite second-hand bookshop, which is actually not a bookshop, but that’s a story for another time, anyway, I always wish that I’ll find a Joan Didion book among the mess of books, but so far I haven’t found one), I’ve read enough samples of her books on Amazon that I feel like I know her; what I’ve read so far makes me want to read more of her writing.

Notes to John was published posthumously earlier this year. The book consists of a collection of her journal entries from her therapy sessions in the early 2000s, which were discovered in a file drawer after her passing (click here to read a sample of the book). When I saw this article on www.theconversation.com, and with permission to republish articles for free, I took the opportunity to share it here. I hope you enjoy it.

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12/09/2025
Are These Photos Yours? Found in a Secondhand Book

Did you know that there’s an online community of readers who post about things they’ve found in secondhand books?

And there are numerous blog posts from libraries to bookshops talking about items, some valuable, some historical, and some plain odd, that most of their readers have found in secondhand books. From J.R.R. Tolkien’s notes on an illustrated map, to thousands of dollars in cash, and snacks.

Take a good look and let me know in the comments section if you recognise or know any of these people.

I had no idea that a #foundinabook community existed until I found two photographs in a secondhand copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers. I bought the book at Bargain Box, Main Street, Nadi Town. Since they don’t keep records of who or where they buy the books from, I searched online on how to find the right owner and return the photos to them.

I’ve posted about this on X and on Instagram, but it seems the people who post with that hashtag #foundinbooks simply want to show everyone else what they’ve found, but are not serious about returning the items.

I think photographs are precious because they are tangible reminders of a time and place in your life. That’s why I want to return these photos to their owners. I will happily mail them and take care of the cost, as long as it’s to the rightful owners.

And I’m appealing to you, dear reader, please, look at the photographs shown above, and let me know if you recognize or know any of the people you see there. Let me know either in the comments section, through the contact form, or email me directly on support@singularfaith.com

Have you found anything in a secondhand book? Share your find or your link to your social media post about it in the comments section.

20/06/2025
Writing in the Spirit
But how do I find the motivation I need every day, as I face the blank page? How can I justify spending so much time writing without clear knowledge of the usefulness or worth of my work? While Rome burns, will I just fiddle with words? And then the big question: Is this really what God wants me to do with my life?
Carol J. Rottman, Ph.D., Writers In The Spirit

I’ve wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember.

Reading Rottman’s words, however, filled me with doubts. I thought that if a true writer (in my mind, a published writer) like Rottman doubted her ability and capacity to write, what chance did I have?
WRITERS IN THE SPIRIT

Written by Carol J Rottman, PhD

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But my dream to be a published writer didn’t stop or ease. It simply changed from getting published in magazines to writing for myself. Ta da! I registered and bought my domain name and web hosting with Bula Host. I got my website on this day in 2022.

I posted my first article in October 2023. More than a year after singularfaith.com officially came into being.

Why did it take me so long?

Short answer: Writer’s block.

Only, it goes deeper than that. It’s more like a cliff with a sheer drop. I still struggle to write, compounded by my introverted nature.

My words may not be perfect—English is my second language, and they might not even be ‘good.’ But they are all I have to offer right now. I’m growing as a writer and, more importantly, as a Christian woman sharing what God is doing in my life and the lessons I’m learning.

Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;

Let such as love Your salvation say continually,

“The LORD be magnified!”

Psalm 40:16

Motivation

At its core, our purpose as Christians is to know and worship the LORD God. And to tell others about Him.

Hasn’t the LORD God given us gifts and talents to do that, even us older introverted spinsters?

That motivates me to keep writing, knowing that others like us are searching for our place in the world and striving to belong in the church.

For in You, O LORD, I hope;

You will hear, O Lord my God.
Psalm 38:15

Usefulness

I write to connect with and help older introverted Christian spinsters.

I pray I continue to write and remain faithful to the Holy Spirit’s direction. I pray that He brings the right people to read what they need to know.

And now, Lord, what do I wait for?

My hope is in You.
Psalm 39:7

Calling

For better or for worse, the world is changing. But our needs remain the same: to be known, seen, heard, and loved, to know that we matter.

And we do matter. You and I matter. We matter to the One who made us, shaped each intricate part of us and placed us where we are.

God knows us. He sees each part of us. Knows all our weaknesses and our strengths. He hears our silent pleas for help. He loves us.

He calls us.

Your Turn

Do you feel led by God to be a writer, to write or blog to share your faith?

Please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

May God bless your writing. Thank you for your faithfulness.

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31/08/2024