Hi, my name is Matt. Pleased to meet your acquaintance! Here’s a little bit about myself and how this site came to be about.
I’ve long been a south suburban Chicago boy, having been in the area for my whole life. The area is littered with several milestones in my life, including graduating from both high school and college as well as meeting my wife and growing our family. It would also make sense that after college I found a job in the area, too.
For the past ten years or so, I worked for a local church as their director of communications, helping create their marketing, public relations and social media department from the ground up. This was a great job, one that fed my creative and analytical side, especially with writing and wordsmithing.
One of the many things I was in charge of was creating content for a weekly e-blast. In trying to come up with a hook that would entice our readership to open our emails every week, I wrote a weekly “mini-devotional” that opened the e-blast.
It worked. Over the years, the devotionals became less “mini,” and it grew to be something that I looked forward to writing every week when I had the time. I had many people through the years tell me that they loved my writings and that it helped to point them towards God. This was something I never got tired of hearing. (Writers always love to hear that our stuff has an impact on someone!)
Unfortunately life marches continually on, bringing changes with it, lest we as people become stagnant. My position was eliminated due to budget considerations. In the past few months since I left my position, I’ve had people, including some I never met before, approach me and tell me how much they miss receiving my thoughts each week. Each personal encounter kept affirming my desire to keep writing and teaching others to see God in their lives. Each affirmation, coupled with my growing desire to write and teach, made me wonder what God is trying to tell me.
After praying and thinking about it, I decided to create a website out of a domain name that I sat on for years. What you see before you is the result. But I’m not stopping here. While I search for a full-time job to help support my growing family, I’ve become convicted that God has called me to trust Him at a greater – and frankly, terrifyingly – level that I’ve never trusted on Him before.
He wants me to write for Him again, but this time in a much deeper and expanded capacity, a capacity that may include doing this full-time on top of my current part-time job as a K-12 substitute teacher for local deaf / hard-of-hearing programs.
Wow. Really, God? Well, okay, then.
So, in response to God’s calling, in addition to setting up this site, I’ve also set up a way that you can support me if you feel called to. You can find more information on how to by clicking the link above. The link will go into more detail on how this website will function and how often it will be updated.
With trepidation and anxiety and plenty of hope, I can’t wait to see where God takes this endeavor! May He be glorified always, and may others be blessed through this site and the work done here.
– Matt
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Hi, my name is Matt. Pleased to meet your acquaintance! Here’s a little bit about myself and how this site came to be about.
I’ve long been a south suburban Chicago boy, having been in the area for my whole life. The area is littered with several milestones in my life, including graduating from both high school and college as well as meeting my wife and growing our family. It would also make sense that after college I found a job in the area, too.
For the past ten years or so, I worked for a local church as their director of communications, helping create their marketing, public relations and social media department from the ground up. This was a great job, one that fed my creative and analytical side, especially with writing and wordsmithing.
One of the many things I was in charge of was creating content for a weekly e-blast. In trying to come up with a hook that would entice our readership to open our emails every week, I wrote a weekly “mini-devotional” that opened the e-blast.
It worked. Over the years, the devotionals became less “mini,” and it grew to be something that I looked forward to writing every week when I had the time. I had many people through the years tell me that they loved my writings and that it helped to point them towards God. This was something I never got tired of hearing. (Writers always love to hear that our stuff has an impact on someone!)
Unfortunately life marches continually on, bringing changes with it, lest we as people become stagnant. My position was eliminated due to budget considerations. In the past few months since I left my position, I’ve had people, including some I never met before, approach me and tell me how much they miss receiving my thoughts each week. Each personal encounter kept affirming my desire to keep writing and teaching others to see God in their lives. Each affirmation, coupled with my growing desire to write and teach, made me wonder what God is trying to tell me.
After praying and thinking about it, I decided to create a website out of a domain name that I sat on for years. What you see before you is the result. But I’m not stopping here. While I search for a full-time job to help support my growing family, I’ve become convicted that God has called me to trust Him at a greater – and frankly, terrifyingly – level that I’ve never trusted on Him before.
He wants me to write for Him again, but this time in a much deeper and expanded capacity, a capacity that may include doing this full-time on top of my current part-time job as a K-12 substitute teacher for local deaf / hard-of-hearing programs.
Wow. Really, God? Well, okay, then.
So, in response to God’s calling, in addition to setting up this site, I’ve also set up a way that you can support me if you feel called to. You can find more information on how to by clicking the link above. The link will go into more detail on how this website will function and how often it will be updated.
With trepidation and anxiety and plenty of hope, I can’t wait to see where God takes this endeavor! May He be glorified always, and may others be blessed through this site and the work done here.
– Matt
Want to know even more about me? Well, click away!
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