Dry Valley End

If you’ve noticed, I haven’t written any blogs for a while. I thought I would today. I feel as if I’m standing on the top of a Colorado 14’er and looking back and down on a dry valley, which if its breadth was expressed in time, was fifty years wide. How did I get here? Only by the grace of God and to his eternal glory. Since publishing Ambient at the end of July 2013, I have been dissatisfied with my life and accomplishments. I attribute that partially to Ambient. I’ve reread the poems and short stories several times lately and what I found was a message of a lost little boy and backslidden man. In actuality, Ambient was a subconsciously written tale of my life as I crossed the expanse of that dry valley. In the weeks that followed publishing it, I started to read Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Commentary on the Book of Ephesians, God’s Ultimate Purpose, and it was at that point I left the valley floor and started my climb. I knew from what I was reading that I carried a heavy burden of sin in my backpack as I scaled that mountain. Finally, one morning I was filled with the sense of God’s forgiveness as I lunged for the top. I wept for joy having not experienced such heights. Neither did I looking up expect to see someone already there, although I should have known. Having reached the pinnacle, there was the Son of God, who smiled and lovingly removed the pack and cast it into the valley far below. In it was the totality of my sins (past, present and future), such was the gift of the one who gave his life on the cross and the shedding of his unfathomable blood.

So. Now you’re up-to-date. If interested, please follow this blog and the Millpond Discoveries category. This peak, as it would be for all, is merely a plateau, which from here continues to lead only upward. Have a wonderful day.