Introduction

            Before you sit down to write a blog, the experts strongly encourage you to ask the questions, “Who is your audience? To whom are you writing?” (in regular English that would be, "Who are you writing to?") and “What are you trying to accomplish?”

            The “Who am I writing to?” is easy. I’m writing to people who are just like me, men who have poured their heart into their faith, and yet feel abandoned; women who have been run over by life and wonder if anyone bothered to get the license plate; everyone who suspects there’s something to this thing called Christianity, but for a variety of reasons are hanging onto their faith by their fingernails.

            I’m writing to the person who has opened the pages of one inspiring Christian book after another, desperately looking for something to bolster his floundering faith, only to find himself wallowing in a pool of self-pity and incrimination because he doesn’t measure up to the bold declarations of the author, or he’s too spent to get back in the race.

            I’m writing to the young lady who is wandering in the desert and is wondering how much of the aridness of her life is her fault, God’s fault, or the world’s fault; the person who has grown tired of wondering and has simply concluded that she’s too messed up to ever find her way out of this barren land.

            I’m writing to the person who is afraid to name the despair deep within, unwilling to admit the struggles and doubts that eat at their soul, ashamed of his inability to pull himself up by his faith bootstraps and soldier on, to the one who hides her face in the crowd because she’s convinced herself she’s the only one who struggles like this, who doubts like that, who has let God down so monumentally.

I’m writing to the persons who fail to realize that the very crowd we try to avoid consists of people just like us, and just like us, they spend an inordinate amount of energy trying to hide their struggles instead of bringing them to light.

            I’m writing this blog for people just like me.