There is something I have always believed about writing. If the words matter, they should be available to the person who needs them. Not only the person who can afford a subscription. Not only the person willing to pay to get past a wall. Not only the person who already knows my name.
That is why I have continued building this Library as a place where people can read freely about faith, relationships, leadership, grief, personal growth, purpose, culture, and the questions we sometimes carry when nobody else is around to answer them.
I don’t know who will find a particular article.
I don’t know what they are going through when they type a question into Google late at night. I don’t know whether they will read one paragraph or spend an hour exploring everything I have written. But I do know something:
I want the door to be open when they arrive.
And right now, keeping that door open has become a little more difficult.
When Life Forces You to Slow Down
For the next several weeks, I will be away from my regular work while dealing with a physical situation that requires surgery and recovery. That means a significant reduction in my normal income for approximately three months.
The bills, of course, did not receive the memo. Neither did the cost of maintaining a website. Or publishing. Or outreach. Or any of the ordinary expenses that continue regardless of whether life temporarily forces you to stop.
I’m not writing this because I believe anyone owes me anything. They don’t.
I’m writing it because I have spent years believing that if you are going to build something meaningful, you should allow the people who believe in it the opportunity to help keep it alive.
And perhaps there is someone reading this who has been looking for exactly that opportunity.
Why I Don’t Want to Put This Library Behind a Paywall
The obvious answer to supporting independent writing is to charge for it. Create a subscription. Lock certain articles. Offer the best material only to paying members.
I understand why independent writers and online creators do that. Creating meaningful content takes time, and maintaining a platform costs money. But I keep coming back to the same question:
What about the person who needs the words but can’t afford the price of admission?
Some of the most-read articles in this Library were found by people searching for answers. Questions about relationships. Questions about God. Questions about loss. Questions about why two people can love each other and still end up apart. Questions about longing, grief, faith, purpose, and hope.
I never want someone’s financial situation to determine whether they can read something that might help them through a difficult night. So, as long as I can, I want the Library to remain free.
Supporting an Independent Writer Doesn’t Mean Buying Access
There is another model. Instead of requiring everyone to pay, the people who are able, and who believe the work has value, can help make it possible for everyone else to continue reading for free.
That’s what Support the Mission exists for.
It isn’t a subscription. It doesn’t unlock secret articles. There isn’t a premium section where the better thoughts are hiding. It is simply an opportunity to say:
Keep going. Keep writing. Keep publishing. Keep putting something into the world that might reach someone neither of us will ever meet. A contribution doesn’t have to be enormous to matter.
Sometimes keeping something alive isn’t about finding one person willing to carry the entire weight. Sometimes it’s about enough people deciding that something is worth carrying together.
What Your Support Actually Supports
Supporting an independent author or Christian writer isn’t simply paying someone to sit at a keyboard. It helps maintain the platform where the work lives. It allows free articles and faith-based content to remain available without placing everything behind a paywall.
It supports continued writing, publishing, outreach, books, speaking, and the opportunity to reach people searching for encouragement and answers. More importantly, it gives me something incredibly valuable during the months ahead:
the ability to keep creating while I recover.
I don’t intend to spend the next three months disappearing.
If anything, being temporarily removed from the normal rhythm of work may give me more time to write, think, visit churches, meet people, build relationships, and continue turning this Library into something larger than a collection of blog posts.
But time alone doesn’t keep the lights on.
Maybe You Found This for a Reason
Perhaps you’ve been reading my work for months. Perhaps this is the first thing you’ve ever read here. Maybe you arrived through Google after searching for a completely different answer and somehow ended up on this page. That’s how much of this Library grows. One person finds one article. That article leads to another.
And somewhere along the way, a stranger realizes that someone else has wrestled with the same question they have. That is why I keep writing. Not because every article becomes popular. Most won’t. Not because every reader becomes a supporter. Most won’t.
I write because you never know which words will find the one person who needed them. And I believe that possibility is worth protecting.
Help Me Keep the Lights On
For the next several weeks, I am going to continue doing what I have been doing: Writing. Publishing. Thinking. Questioning. Encouraging. Challenging. And trusting that if this work is supposed to continue growing, a way will be made for it to continue.
If something I have written has helped you, challenged you, made you laugh, strengthened your faith, changed your perspective, or simply made you feel a little less alone, you can help support this independent writing through the Support the Mission page.
If you’re unable to contribute financially, you can still help. Share an article. Send one to someone who needs it. Tell someone the Library exists. Come back and read again.
Every one of those things helps this work reach farther. I don’t know exactly what the next three months will look like. But I know what I intend to do with them.
Keep writing. Keep building. Keep the door open.
Because somewhere, someone I will probably never meet is typing a question into a search bar. And I want the answer waiting for them when they arrive.
Support the Mission
If you believe independent writing, free online content, faith-based encouragement, and honest conversations about life are worth keeping available, I invite you to visit the Support the Mission page.
Your support helps keep this Library online, keeps the content free, and gives this mission the opportunity to continue reaching people wherever they may be.
No paywall. No required membership. Just an open door, and the people who believe it’s worth keeping open.
