Yesterday, August 16th, marked the 9th anniversary of Thoughts Of Redemption. Throughout this year a constant thought I’ve dealt with is how many thoughts I’ve had this year, while sharing very little of it.

Since last August, I’ve shared only two blog posts, and three the year prior. I never want to make this about the number of things I put out since I’m not a content mill. For me though, this is more of a realization of how I experience seasons in life and taking note of how I respond to them. I’m not used to how absent I’ve been, even though the amount of work I’ve done on this blog, social media posts, podcasting, and YouTube has dwindled for the past few years.

All of that to say, this year has just been different for me, and I’ve often struggled to make sense of why that is. I was encouraged during one of my coaching calls a few months back, with friend and author of Let There Be Art, Rachel Marie Kang, that creatives can experience different seasons with creativity. They come with highs and lows, as well as different outlets that creativity is expressed through. I’ve experienced a winter in creating as a writer, yet I’ve also had to hone and focus on how I create in the rest of my life, in my marriage and home as a husband and a man.

Rethinking Creativity

It’s not that these things are distractions or hindrances to my work, as easy as it would be to place blame on them, but there is real value in seeing your life as a work of art, rather than only viewing my content creation as the only time I get to create in life. It is really important that I, as a writer and creative, am able to see the creativity and art to life. Life is the reason that I get to do what I do and give reflections like these in the first place. In this season, I am learning how I create an environment for my marriage, home, and relationships to thrive. I also am forced to take responsibility for the ways that I have created a bad environment and struggled to reflect the Father in the negativity I’ve created too. God has been using the pressures of life to expose my pride, anger, lack of discipline, lack of compassion, need for patience, recognition of how much I need His grace, and so much more.

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Since 2014, the majority of time that I have worked on this platform, I have had alot to say. In the past few years, and especially this year, I have had a clear challenge for how to apply all the things I’ve spoken about and the things that God would have me speak on next. I think the quiet time on the content front has presented itself two-fold: it has revealed my lack of discipline as I work through these transitions in my life, while displaying the value of seeing creativity and art with a whole life view, and appreciating what that means.

I don’t know what this year will bring in what I put out, but what I do want for my life is to see Jesus made known through it. To experience His involvement in the transformation of my thought life, how it impacts my loved ones, and the people I’m called to love. Happy blogiversary, Thoughts Of Redemption.