With a little under two months left during this writing season I have completed 6 of the 7 books I am currently writing. These books will take the book series to a total of 50 books completed… halfway complete.

I have learned a great deal about simplicity these past months. God has been teaching me about simply belonging to Him. These seem to be more and more lessons in humility, obscurity, and solitude. It feels as if I see the world completely differently than I ever have before. As if at some point I crossed a line and now live in another world completely.

I think often of what Paul wrote:

“I have been crucified with Christ [that is, in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” – Galatians 2:20

In Part 2: Restoring The Seventh Color I wrote: “Loneliness is the greatest gift God has ever given me.”

It bears repeating here and now…

Loneliness is the greatest gift God has ever given me.

I never understood why God would allow His children to suffer so… but now… I understand it a bit more. But it’s not something you can read about… it’s not something someone else can tell you about… no… to understand suffering for Christ… you have to experience it through obedience to God’s Word. That is the only way to partake in it… to share it.

You can encourage others to obey God… but that’s all you can do. Everyone must make their own choices.

God is truly found beyond the impossible, in the darkness of obscurity, in the quietness of solitude, and in the embrace of loneliness.