Did you spot the genuine article last week?

Last week we did a minor study on a passage from Proverbs. Did you spot the genuine article?

Last week, the newsletter was contained A Father’s Guide to Wisdom where we spent a little time in Proverbs. Did it sound off? Did you notice anything different about it? The reason I ask is because the Father’s Guide to Wisdom was written by AI. Sure I entered the prompts, but ChatGPT wrote it.

We need to spend time with the genuine article to spot the forgery. We need to spend time in our Bibles, with our family, with truth and people who are real.

The internet isn’t real life. It’s not a simulation but there are family and friends and neighbors who are close by. These are the genuine article relationships, warts and conflicts and all. We see each others faults and failures and weaknesses, but we still move forward. I hope. There’s truth in the Bible and if we don’t spend time there, even the spots we don’t like, how will we spot false truths?

Sometimes too much can leave us in a daze and susceptible to error, like not being able to spit the genuine article. There are a LOT of voices, some genuine, some false, but they’re all talking. For me, I’ve been wrestling with seeing the path forward.

The Weekly Rhythm started as part of my focus to write. For a long time I’ve been a consumer but I want to put that off. In its place, I’m working to put on becoming a creator with writing as the medium. The problem is that I’ve split my focus.

My writing started several years ago when I had an active blog. It was was fueled by hiking trip reports. As my most active hiking days waned into comic books, the tone shifted.

This year I’ve been writing almost daily on Twitter and started this newsletter. These are big wins! While becoming a better father is a great goal and one I hope we each continue to pursue, I’m studying writing.

In order to retain what I’m learning, I’m going to shift to writing about, well, writing. The family culture book is still in its rough draft and I’ll likely still work on it as opportunity allows. However, I’m going to take the thrust of my fatherhood focus and work it out within my local church.

There are a couple things this means for the Weekly Rhythm. For starters, it will be on a hiatus while I rework it. One I start it back up, it may come up under a different name, it may have a different frequency, but it should still show up in your inbox from me, JP Simons. If you want to unsubscribe, no hard feelings. If you want to hang out and see what comes next, I’d love to have you along with me for the journey.

In its current state, this is the sundown of the Weekly Rhythm. I hope you found benefit in it each issue you read.

For you to think about this week:

What rhythm can you implement weekly in your home? Those early entries on establishing this are still in the archives.

For you to act on this week:

I’ll share what I’m working on as part of my refocus.

Read. Write. Relate. Respond.

This is input, processing, connecting, and action.

What do you need to act on? Just do something. I need to put this into practice as much as I’m preaching it. Just do something.

Tweet of the week:

When we talk again, I hope you’re here. Connect with me on Twitter @bluecollarwrite in the meantime.

Take care.

~ J.P.