When I first started blogging, there was a song by TobyMac called, “Lose My Soul“, and a phrase in that song was branded in my mind. “I don’t want to gain the whole world and lose my soul.” No matter where blogging took me, I was to remain true to those words.

In 2014 I started a blog called Letitgocoach, but a couple of years ago I began blogging under the name, Inbarbsworld and my faithful followers humored me and moved here. At some point the domain name for Letitgocoach expired and someone else bought it. Now if you click on any links associated with Letitgocoach, you’ll arrive at a site for “Sexy Chat.” This broke my heart, but then I got mad. You could say, I went through all 5 stages of grief in one week.

I exported 910 posts from Letitgocoach to make them into a book for my daughter, but this is prime example of how evil lurks in this world. I took my eyes off the ball, or domain name, and now it’s of the world.

Recently, I was invited to be surrounded by a group of people who wanted to pray and share prophecy over me. Thankfully, I recorded the session because so many things were said that held true in my life and all but one of them were complete strangers! I didn’t need to know them, because I trust the woman who brought them together, but when I think of blogging, one of them said something that stuck.

“Know the difference between what you start and what God has given.”

I’m grateful for Letitgocoach and eight years of writing practice. It also gave me friends for life, but through that God gave me Inbarbsworld, so this is me, running home, like the prodigal.

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