Blogging while writing for real

Just wanted to say thanks to those who keep asking about my blog. It's been hard to remember to blog because I've been doing some "real writing". Hopefully I'll be able to share more later, but suffice it to say that I'm writing a bit of fiction that had been playing around in my head for the past year or so. It's been very cool to be creative in this way. But I do want to continue blogging and sometimes I get discouraged because I'm not doing both at the same time. I'm going to try and be more faithful, but it's something I'll just need grace from myself and from others.

On a side note, I've been thinking a lot about prayer and what it means to pray and why we should pray and if it actually does any good. God's been taking me through some cool passages in the Bible in answer to some of my questions and it's just been really exciting. Even if God doesn't save my family members or kids in youth, like I've asked, He's definitely is leading me through what His word says about praying. I know I'll never totally understand, but from just the little I've gotten so far, I know that He's not left me to figure things out on my own. I won't be writing any dissertations on the theology of prayer, but I am in a better place with God then I was and I think that's cool.