Dec.. 27, 2009
I don’t make New Year Resolutions, but annually I do try to visualize what lies ahead and strive to achieve what I think I should. I invite you to share your thoughts on this topic.
In a way, this blog is is a bully pulpit because it gets hundreds of visits from the United States and many foreign countries. A posting here is a way to reach far beyond what most of us ordinary people could do in the past. Naturally, I favor comments that help other visitors have a better life because of something you and I might write.
For decades, in my teaching aspiring writers how to break into print, I urged them to follow an acrostic I created: OPNAD, which means Other People’s Needs and Desires. My goal for this blog in the months ahead is to try finding ways to help and encourage visitors to find answers to questions that threaten their tomorrows.
People are looking for answers in many places. Some find answers in church, but many of them have low attendance. That indicates the absentees are searching elsewhere. Drug use is so rampant that many users vainly seek escape from reality there, but the end price is very high.
Still others search in many places, but often the answer doesn’t reside in places or things, but inside a person’s own heart and mind. It seems many people are unable to accept and act on that truth. They need help, encouragement and to be lifted up, if only by words.
I am blessed to be a happy, fulfilled man with a wonderful family and friends. But I have had my share of wilderness experiences, so I have known pain and hard times. How about you?
I’d like to know what you plan to do differently next year than you did this. If this blog can be helpful in that way, it will focus on that. After all, what good is a bully pulpit if it’s not used?
Are you finding the suppport and encouragement needed in your life? If not, what are you going to do about changing that so you have what’s now missing? I invite you to share how you found fulfillment in your life. Conversely, if you are not there yet, what do you think it will take to get you there?