Ichabod

"She named the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed"" I Samuel 4:21

It. You got to have it as a ministry. You can't buy it, you can't earn it, you can catch it, you can realize one day that you've had it, or you can realize that somewhere along the way you lost it.
That's where I find myself. Having just read It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It, by Craig Groeschel. I find myself having lost it.
I've been flying by the seat of my pants, stressed out, missing appointments with God and I'm flat out grounded and broke. I have tried for the last two years to read through the Bible. I made it about half way through. I've decided that I will press on, I hope to read the second half in half a year, but even if I finish in a year, I've done it, straight through once.
I feel as though the creative juices have dried up, but I know that's not entirely true. They're just drier in the desert, the well has to be cleaned out and dug deeper. The past 9 months have seen a lot of struggles and changes in our lives and I'm just starting to get a handle on some of them. I plan to write something each week in each blog. Our photography studio is off to a slow start, but I am hopeful with some of our unique marketing, we'll grow our market share.