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This Week’s Topic: “Blogging” I hope you guys have a lot to say! Some ideas are: Tell us why you started blogging, your blogging goals, needs, how we can help you. Share your favorite blogging tips and tricks, the floor’s open!
This week at The Loft, we are talking about blogging. Chances are good that many who read our posts are also bloggers, so it will be fun to hear all about how you got started, what lights your blogging fire, your focus, your dreams, etc. Today, I am sharing how I got started blogging, so let’s get to it.
Since middle school I had loved to write. Term papers? No problem. I zipped right through those. English assignments. Aced! I simply enjoy writing, but had not really had a reason to write since college.
In December 2002, my Daddy was diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer. During the 22 months before He went home to be with Jesus, many people wanted to keep up with his progress and status. I began to write a weekly email to friends and family, updating them on his health and treatment. At the end of each email, I offered a few words of encouragement and a Scripture. Soon, there were scores of people on the email list.
After Daddy passed in October 2004, I felt the Lord leading me to turn that email into a short devotion. More people asked to be included, and eventually there were almost 150 emails addresses that were receiving my weekly email. At that point, I began having issues with people NOT receiving the email. Because of the large distribution list, many ISPs were flagging it as SPAM, and it was being deleted or quarantined.
One day I was at the gym on the torture machine, AKA elliptical trainer, reading a magazine. One of the articles in the magazine was about a somewhat new idea called blogging. I had never heard of a blog, but immediately I sensed the Lord saying this was His chosen avenue for my writing.
In 2006, I began writing my weekly devotion as blog posts, and the rest is blogging history. My blog is part of my website (www.leahadams.org), and is now my main platform for ministry. Through it I have been blessed to ‘meet’ so many wonderful people. I am deeply grateful to anyone who takes the time to visit my website, and read the words the Lord gives me to write.
That’s my blogging story. What is yours?
Get a running start on Next Week’s Topic: “Intimacy with Jesus” (What does that look like for you? How do you abide in the vine? What barriers do you face or victories you’ve discovered in maintaining intimacy with Jesus? Let’s encourage each other!)
Our Loft buddy Arabah Joy has created a LOFT Facebook group for us LOFTERs! If you’d like to join, just go here and click “join this group.”*** This group is for networking, sharing, encouraging, praying, and laughing together. If no one joins, we’ll shut it down 
Now it’s time to link up!
Add Your Link Here:
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About #TheLoft
The Loft is the place for conversation, community, networking, and Christian growth.
Each week we provide a topic to start the conversation.
PLEASE NOTE: We want to foster community and transparent conversation with one another, just like we’d do if we were meeting in real life. So we ask that your link stick to the weekly topic and that you mention The Loft in your post. Thank you so much!
Monday night, at 9pm Eastern, the linky goes live and all week you can link up your post on that week’s topic.We’ll have fun topics, serious topics, practical, soul-ful, holiday, and so, so much more…we can’t wait to get started! This is not only a great way to connect with others, it’s also a fun and easy way to establish a writing habit. If you aren’t a blogger, you are welcome to join in by leaving your comments in the comment section.
So grab your coffee mug and come on up! Hang out for a bit. We betcha you’ll be glad you did.
To Participate:
1. Be creative. Feel free to use words, photos, video, audio, your family pet, whatever, to communicate on the weekly topic. But please stick to the weekly topic 🙂
2. Listen twice as much as you talk. If you leave one link, visit two. Trust us on this one~wink.
3. Be a community. Include #TheLoft graphic and/or link back in your post so we can find each other. Also, share the great stuff you find when you visit around…we’ll be doing the same.
When you link up at The Loft, your link will appear on 4 blogs! We’d love for you to visit The Loft co-hosts and know who we are: Jen, Rebekah, Leah, Arabah
Next Week’s Topic: “Intimacy with Jesus” (What does that look like for you? How do you abide in the vine? What barriers do you face or victories you’ve discovered in maintaining intimacy with Jesus? Let’s encourage each other!)
