Saying Goodbye Again: For Everything There Is A Season (2020)

My blog's URL, once I relaunched it back in February of last year, contained the phrase "for everything there is a season," followed by 2019. This was for two reasons: 1.) the phrase on its own, followed by "blogspot.com," was taken. So I had to add something else; 2.) I chose 2019 because it was not only the year I restarted it, but it was also in the spirit and time behind restarting it. My previous girlfriend encouraged me to use it to post faith-related stuff, and I had also had a dream in January 2019 that seemed to finally signal an "ok" to resuming, after taking many years off. As for my vision, you can click on the link here. I had no idea if I was going to meet my goals, let alone what the finished product would look like.

If you've been following the whole time, you might've surmised that I didn't exactly reach my big-picture goal. I don't have some other blog that this launched that earns me money, like I had originally planned. I did hit some smaller picture goals, like shifting what I post about and how I post, compared with when I blogged previously as a young man in my 20s.

Anyway, today's post title is in the same spirit as the URL title. 2020 is different from 2019, most certainly in a lot of ways, but for me it's different because I've concluded that it's time to once again say goodbye. I got my fix. Even though I successfully stayed away from blogging for almost six years, I also periodically had dreams during that time about blogging again. (I certainly had enough blog-worthy material in my life that I could have posted at any point in that time!)

I didn't post this in my first return post, but I wish to share a verse that I now realize formed my return last year, as well as my going at this time. From Ecclesiastes 3:7, NIV (second half)

"a time to be silent and a time to speak..."

I won't rule out returning perhaps sometime down the road, very likely at a reduced rate. But if I don't, I will happily say that I'm grateful for the opportunity to have gone on another adventure, to get the writing juices stirred again, even if only for a while.