A long-delayed return to the blog, http://theglobalpilgrim.com/
Engaging the year of my 85th birthday, I have been mulling over the following questions:
1. Who am I now? After 60 years of crosscultural mission and a richly diverse life of vocational service.
2. What does God call me to be? These are the rock-bottom realities of life, and my life. In essence He calls me to live as a beloved son, and a Jesus lover who longs to finish well.
3. What does God call me to do? Ah, this is different, but also a deal-breaker. As I review my last ten years of life and work, I realize the journey has become fuller and more challenging. While I used to “do” a lot of things, now, today, in the fullness of my 84th year, things are different. Yesterday, reading the opening page of my web site, TaylorGlobalConsult.org it is clear that some of the good things that marked me before, do not now. The now is different, and rightly so.
So how do I self-identify, or what am I do now? For the first time in my life I am self-identifying as a writer, a mentor and a friend of the CRUX Institute, that newish and so creative apologetics platform based in Guatemala, staffed by a multi-national team, and already having an impact far beyond expectation.
Bill Taylor, the Writer
For nearly 36 years, starting in Guatemala before we moved to the USA in 1985, my passion as a writer was to ask others to write with me, to share the task and the benefits of writing. My co-authors were Latin Americans, and I was a satisfied writer. Then for 30 years with the WEA Mission Commission, my calling was to “Publish Global Voices to Address Global Issues”. That meant I was more of an editor.
However, in early 2017, as those three decades concluded, I sensed the Spirit nudge me, quietly saying, “Well done, Taylor. But NOW I release YOU to write from YOUR heart.”
Fast-forwarding to today
Earlier this month William Carey Publishers released my book, “Leading from Below: Lessons from the Crucible of Global Mission.” And that gives direction and content to this blog. I want to feature segments of the book, in the order they emerged in written form. Select photographs will illustrate. The affirmation of the women and men who endorsed the book will be identified.
And I shall continue writing on this blog.
Welcome good reader, and may these musings, reflections, stories and more encourage, stir and stimulate you to follow Him, Jesus our Christ until the journey is over–the one on planet earth that is.
Bill Taylor, Writer
