Wow. I wanted to send this in lieu of our regular devotional because this means a lot to me.
Last January, I followed a few people I look up to onto this site and created my substack account. I transferred 41 subscribers from my first independent blog on January 8th of 2023. At the end of August, I started posting weekly and began to see a positive response from you all and growth.
Writing this past
year has been a joy. I know this content is not nearly as marketable or “trendy” as other social media outlets. Yet, as a writer, I have found it the most deeply engaging for me as a writer and thinker than any other outlet. This place has been playground for the mind and gym for my imagination. I hope some of the content has been helpful and engaging for you as readers.
My goal is always to provide beneficial material for you all. Yet, I am writing out of the place I am truly at. This substack could honestly be called a journal. It contains many things I have thought about over the last year. I call it “Our Christian Faith” because it flows out and impacts us all—not solely my writing, but our collective thoughts, applications of faith, and processing of Jesus in our lives.
I am so glad that we got this milestone. I am always childishly hopeful while simultaneously being realistically stubborn in thinking this writing could be beneficial to you all. The past few months I have become increasingly satisfied with living a more quiet, faithful, and deep life—rather than one seeking affirmation, following, and success. While this milestone is a great honor and I will continue to pour out my most authentic work, I am not seeking to grow my substack with subscribers that read these words because they are mine. Rather, should the Lord continue to use these words to bless you and more readers in the future, I pray that they will read and be challenged to more deeply participate in this beautiful communion we have together, with one another and with Jesus, called our Christian faith…
Thank you all for love for me and my family.
Many blessings!
Abram