Dear Christian blogger:
Are you down about your blog? Are you discouraged with your results? Do you feel like no one is listening or reading your blog?
Keep Grinding!
You are one voice in a sea of voices. Getting heard takes work! You’ve got to EARN the right for people to invest their precious time into reading your content.
It doesn’t happen overnight.
One such person—actually—one such family— is the Berry Bunch—my friends over in the UK who are building their own Christian media EMPIRE. They aren’t there yet, but they’re grinding away at their dream daily.
Go check them out!
[All you’re got to do is click here.]
Hey! Remember, today is the end of Daylight Savings Time for 2023! So, don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour or else you’ll be SUPER early at church tomorrow!
As you rest and reflect on the week that was, I encourage you to consider these three questions from my post How Do Our Lives Reflect the Image of God?:
1. Is my life today marked by order or is my life one that creates chaos?
2. Did I shine light into the lives of others and deliver hope into the darkness?
3. Did my words lift and encourage others or do I wound and discourage people with my tongue?
Abundant blessings and continued happy blogging my friends!
The Devotional Guy™
Rainer Bantau
The Devotional Guy™ 
True, true. You’re welcome. I’m glad this post provided you with a dose of encouragement. Thanks for reading and commenting. Blessings.
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Thanks for the encouragement, brother. I have a devotional blog and the desire to be seen and heard is more fleshly than I care to admit.
My writing is first to myself, then to anyone else who cares to read my thoughts on life and the Word.
Actually, it’s sometimes better to have fewer readers because we stay humble and write better quality from a pure heart…the Lord often reminds me that I have an audience of one anyway: Him.😀
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Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts !
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Blessings Ranier. Your three questions are a worthy place to pause and reflect. Indeed, writing to fill frequent and consistent blog posts requires one to find peace within the grind.
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I’m glad you stopped by to read my blog, Linda. I agree that you’ve got to keep your priorities straight. Full time ministry and being present for your family are definitely important and I’m encouraged that you see the benefits of being faithful in those areas.
Writing is hard enough and harder if you don’t enjoy it so I’m for whatever works for the individual writer. Each of us are motivated to write for different reasons. I look forward to reading some of the posts on your blog.
I’m glad you found my corner as well.
Blessings.
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I haven’t really set out to grow my blog big. I can’t continuously write because I have a big family and we have a full time ministry that isn’t the blog. Those have to be my first investments. I write because it is my process, because I do enjoy connecting with others, because it improves my skills, and because sometimes it really does take a sea of voices to reach all the corners of the globe. Glad I found your corner.
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Hah! Thanks for that compliment.
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Thank you for blogging, where would I be without my bloggin’ dad!?
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Thanks for reading, Nathan. I’m glad this post resonated with you.
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Yah I definitely needed this blog post! Why does it have to take so much time, I mean… why do I have to be the only one who builds Rome in a day? 😜 totally joking!
Such great reminders and I feel the love, awesome reflection questions!
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Thank you, David!
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Thank you, Bridget!
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Great reflection questions. Thank you, Rainer!
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I love your three questions, brother. Thank you for sharing them again, as I missed them the first time. Andy Berry, and family are some of my dearest friends–across the pond. You’re right, they are building and EMPIRE (by faith) for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Blessings to you, this weekend, and always.
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