As a Christian, I believe the Holy Spirit lives in my heart to provide comfort, correction and conviction. It’s the divine process that changes us as we live out our days so we are more Christ-like as we mature. Sometimes that process is disrupting, as it should be because we still battle our flesh, which is firmly ensconced in the world and finds its satisfaction and comfort in worldly things. The more serious we are about giving up our desires and asking God to replace them with His, the more disruptive the Holy Spirit’s work in our hearts.

What I just described won’t make sense to non-believers, but it is definitely what I’ve been experiencing over the past few months as I’ve found myself troubled and unable to do many of the things I used to do with ease.

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A few months ago, I shared with you that God was taking me through a period of reflection, a “timeout” from what I had been doing before a rash of health issues, and my frustration with the rancor and hostility in the public discourse I was attempting to moderate online, essentially shut me down for a while.

I haven’t silenced myself completely, since I’ve had bursts of commentary here and there about current events, and I’ve written a couple of longer thought pieces since that time on religious liberty and the failure of the president to show leadership and rebuke harsh rhetoric from both sides of the political aisle.

For the most part, however, I’m unable to sit down and write about a topic on demand, and I’ve found myself responding differently to the things that moved me in the past.

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