Everything's always changing

Matthew 5:14-16: You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

One of the most difficult parts of living in this world is its steadfast determination to hijack our time and focus, and draw our eyes away from God. There's been a lot going on over the past couple of months - the past couple of years. If you've been feeling weighed down by these things, you're not alone. 

But we're also seeing a momentous shift, with people all over the world turning towards God; light shining brighter in the darkness. The harvest is plentiful, and I've felt convicted that I need to make some changes to better serve the Kingdom during this time.

I'm still writing sweet and clean stories that encourage us to lift our heads and look to the Lord. I'm also praying through some decisions about my website, my newsletter - and my currently-empty YouTube channel.

While the website things are a very long story, Shopify is a terrible platform for selling low-cost items like eBooks for a variety of reasons, so I think it's time for me to move off Shopify and onto a more suitable platform. My newsletters go through the ecommerce email platform connected to my store, Omnisend, and while they are absolutely brilliant at ecommerce emails, the newsletter-related features are far more limited than some of the platforms other authors use. I'd love to be able to set up polls, competitions, even conversations and discussion, but ecommerce isn't really designed for community. So I'm looking at changing the way I communicate with those of you who would like to hear from me, too.

And the YouTube channel has been a long time coming. I've felt the unction that I need to start creating content there for almost a year, but other things have interfered with my getting started. I'd been praying recently over what my next step with my little book business should be, but not hearing a clear answer, and I realised that it was because I hadn't done the last thing that God told me to do - start my YouTube channel. 

So this feels like a big update, and in a lot of ways, it is. I've built products and systems and pages and all of the ecommerce things over the past year, and now it feels like time to tear it all down. I don't know what the purpose of this process has been, but I have to believe that there's a reason for it, and that God is still faithful even though I don't understand why. Please pray for wisdom for me as I try to navigate what these changes will look like.