Dear friends,
I apologize for being quiet and hope what I share below will help make sense of it…
This evening, I shared the following on the Facebook page for my current book project, How Hard is Love:
This evening, I shared the following on the Facebook page for my current book project, How Hard is Love:
“In the near future, the name and function of this page will be changing. This comes after being led into a time of stillness, prayer, and seeking starting in mid-September through now. While the Father did lead me into creating the platforms for How Hard is Love, He had a purpose and I believe it was a test of my personal growth.
Why?
Back in 2018, after publishing the second book I had written and also having had multiple Faith-based short stories and poems published in the two years prior, what came with that was some notoriety. But also, a slight rearing up of things within myself that remained unhealed. This all came on the heels of a season of trauma that He was still walking me through and continued to for some time.
The attention I was receiving was triggering past hurts which drove a need and desire for external attention. This was not my nor God’s plan so he asked me to walk away from it all, even shutting down the social media for my blog that had a large global following, and my personal profiles.
Earlier this year when He led me to write more actively for How Hard is Love (which will become a book or a resource), and had me create a platform on Substack, I quickly lost the desire and stopped posting only weeks into it.
This was the test: He was helping me see how much I had grown in this area since 2018.
Since, I have literally heard His voice speaking to me yet some things were not made clear…until last week when He finally answered a question I had posed.
You see, at His prompting, in 2012 I turned a website/blog that, upon it’s inception in 2011 I believed would be about writing, into a journey of personal testimony of my Faith-walk, living life for God, and whatever He laid upon my heart to share. It has been the most difficult yet beautifully rewarding space I never imagined.
Earlier this week The Father finally revealed to me how his plan has always been for me to keep building and growing this very personal space online into OUR (His/mine) platform that will now house all of my writing ~AND~ the care-based coaching services He is leading me into providing.
It made so much sense to me. The complete name of my website speaks volumes when looked at from this perspective:
“Writing Down Life: Witnessing the Ebb and Flow of a Life Lived for God”
From my formative years, writing has been a means of healing for me so it is only fitting that it continues to help others along their own healing journeys.
I hope you will stick with me and take some time to peruse through the archives of over a decade of vulnerable, life-giving, writing for the LORD. (And, while I slowly transform this page to fit with it.)”
This being said, expect some changes to this website to be rolled out in 2026. The HHiL Facebook page will either become Writing Down Life or a variant of my actual name.
Thank you for being here, and I pray you have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Thank you for being here, and I pray you have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Blessings,
Stacey