Yesterday I answered part of Cathy’s questions. Here are today’s answers

Cathy @ Mommy Motivation asked (snippet from yesterday):

Or there isn’t an audience for what I am writing about? *I wonder if the audience that I KNOW is there, is already getting all the information they need from larger sources? Like those huge mom forums or discussion boards.

Literally every where I turn in bloggy world, I see the question — how do I get more readers? I must confess right now, I get trapped in the stats game — trying to figure out where people come from and what they want to read. How can I make them like me? How can I get them to stick around and read my blog before someone else’s? The stats game will drive you bonkers.

Sometimes I try to tell myself — I’ll be me, write what I want, and if I bless one person in this world, it will all be worth it. The reality though is I need to feel validated. I need to feel wanted and useful — like I have a purpose for my life and I’m fulfilling that purpose. Those needs are pretty common. Visions of hundreds of people reading my blog dance in my head. Helping thousands of people to grow in their relationship with God would be awesome. We try to figure out how to feel validated on our own. Is that 10 comments on a post? Would that make me feel successful in my writing? Or would it take 100 comments? 10 regular visitors? Or 100?

Last year I decided to concentrate on one life — to make a difference in that life. My greatest weapon? Prayer. Because I prayed for Heather — because I got others to pray for Heather — God was able to use me to reach her. Through me God changed not only Heather, but her 2 children, her church, her ex-husband, and her friends. Change can be good, but with God doing the changing it can be awesome! After Heather decided to accept Jesus though, I was lost again. What do I do? Do I write? Do I find another person to help? I wish I could tell you that in the past year I’ve let God use me to touch another’s life like He did Heather’s life, but I have not. I got comfortable. I stopped having my quiet time and praying.

Recently I did some interviews with people. The reason for my interviews was to really find out about the blogger and their faith. I was a little disappointed and baffled when they did not post a link to the interview on their blogs — they have so many more readers than I. But I reminded myself to focus on God — because He really is bigger than Google. I trust that He will lead people to my site in one way or another — the ones who need to read this, the ones He can help through my writing. There’s a reason God is bringing the people here that are coming here and reading just as there is a reason that some people aren’t coming here.

Life is all about choices and relationships. Make a choice to work on your relationship with God a priority. When your priorities are straight, God will help you with your blogging. God wants to be in the details of your life — if you let Him. How much more fun (and less stressful) is blogging when you stop worrying about how many readers you have and start letting God write through you?