Today marks the one-year anniversary of this blog. To my regular readers — all four of you 
— thank you for your support and comments. I’ve enjoyed hearing from you. I confess I haven’t updated the blog with posts as often as I would have liked. Last year was breakneck busy. This year has been calmer, so hopefully I’ll have more time to write. I do try to post a devotional at least once a week because I am part of a group of Christians at my workplace who send out a devotional daily by email to a list of subscribers. My day is Wednesday. That’s why many of my posts are published on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. Time permitting, however, I hope to post more than just devotionals this year.
As I was going through some of this year’s entries, it occurred to me that I don’t think I ever explained the name for my blog, LIGHTbreak. My initial inspiration for the name comes from the way God often gives me insight into His heart. In the middle of my muddleheadedness, God will speak to me a truth much like how a ray of sun can break through the clouds. It’s a beautiful thing, and I am humbled He communicates with me that way.
But there’s also a scriptural basis for the name LIGHTbreak. In Isaiah 5, the Lord recounts the ways in which the sacrifices offered by the nation of Israel are superficial, and then instructs Israel on the kind of sacrifices He’s really interested in — justice, feeding the poor, clothing the naked. If you do these things, the Lord says in Isaiah 5:8, “[t]hen your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.” (Emphasis mine).
I admit that Isaiah 5:8 was not the original source of the name for this blog. Still, it’s a good reminder of what is dear to God’s heart. I hope my future posts will reflect efforts to live out Isaiah 5:8.
