01 - I'm Ready to Talk

The last blog post on my website was July 10th, 2023. Today is September 13th, 2025. It’s been a good long time since I wrote anything here.

Today that is clearly changing. I’ve been processing a lot this past week. To be honest, I’ve been processing a lot for a long time. This week brought about so much emotion.

Charlie Kirk was murdered this week. The videos of his death and the knowledge that in 2025 America, this kind of thing can happen, left me helpless for words. Preceded by Charlie’s murder was the murder of Iryna Zarutska, a young woman murdered on a train on her way home from working at a pizzeria. She sat innocently in her train seat on her phone, with no idea her life here on earth would be stolen from her so savagely.

I didn’t think my foray back into writing would be spurred by such events. 

It hit me as I was journaling last night. The thought, “I am committing to writing 109 blogs by the end of the year.” That’s one a day until December 31st. After going for so long without posting here, it feels like one of those ‘lose 20 lbs in the next week’ crazy commitments.

So why in the world do I feel led to write and commit to what may never get read by most?

I think of Charlie as I write. Someone who created something from nothing. Turning Point, USA was an idea at first. An idea that clearly the Lord breathed on and backed, and today, it’s impacted more lives than I would know to put a number to. 

Charlie had no guarantees that his work would evolve into what it has become today. Iryna had no idea as well what would become of her decision to move here from Ukraine. Two totally different lives, yet ending so close in time to one another. I don’t know many personal details about Iryna. Only that she was a beautiful young woman who clearly had the courage to take a risk, move to an entirely different country, and once she arrived in America and was given clearance, got straight away to begin working to better her life. 2025 America was impacted by both of these individuals. Tragically, there was a school shooting this week as well. 

I’m going to write 109 posts before December 31st because I can. Because I am living and breathing and have the opportunity to use my mind and finger tips to type out words which I hope in the coming days and weeks and months will bring encouragement to those that do read them. Because I hope that anyone reading them will be pointed to the saving power of Christ and how important it is to intimately know your Creator and Savior. Because I want to finish the year strong on a commitment I have the capacity to obtain. I want to grow that muscle of dedication to something new.

Since October 2024, the Lord had been stirring me to write again. I have multiple untitled documents that I had written these past few months, but nothing seemed to stick or take real form that I felt I could develop into anything resembling a writing worth reading.

So here I am with my barely sticky, raw form blog post that I am publishing anyway. 

Thanks for reading this far. I really am so excited to put fingertips to keypad and begin writing regularly again. I’ve been absorbing lot and God has been doing a lot behind the scenes and I am ready to talk, or more accurately, write about it. Here. 

There’s a lot to say.