Sharpening My Saw…

Off the Hooks” is still here. It’s been a while since publishing a blog post, February 9, 2021, to be exact. I have been wrestling with the writing for the last few weeks. It’s not that I don’t have something to say. I want to blog about “saying no,” “walking as the season changes,” and Dr. Yolanda Pierce’s book In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit as well as create a biblical meditation vlog. (And it is coming.)

However, I’m in a new season as a full-time seminarian (Yep, I thought I was done with school.) as well as a minister-in-training. Books abound with theories and theologies that are “Off the Hooks.” I’m being challenged and stretched with new ways of “doing theology.” Something I’ve been doing my whole life is being tested in a fiery furnace as a Black woman who follows Christ. But, I’m sharpening my saw by learning and discerning when to be silent and when to speak up. I’m wrestling with blogging because I’m learning to slow down. If God has already ordered my steps, then I should not be rushing and or getting overwhelmed. After all, God will and can overwhelm me, and you too, with “enough of everything, every moment and in every way…His right-living, right-giving ways never run out” (2 Corin. 9:8).

So, stay on the lookout for “Off the Hooks” blog posts in the coming months.

Until next time,

Angela

4 Comments

  1. I always knew that you had greatness in you. I’m proud to be your cousin from one minister in training to another, we must find new ways to share the gospel because life is always going forward. We take the foundation the that was so freely given and build on that. Yet as life evolves, we must also.

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