Welcome to My Blog!

Hello everyone, welcome! My name is Elena Lucas, and this is the space where I will be sharing some of my writing with you. I am so excited to start this journey and see where it goes!

I have always loved to write, and the older I get the more I realize that I want to share my writing with others. The idea of people reading what I write is very intimidating and very exciting at the same time.

Whether it’s a poem, a short story, or just something God has taught me, I feel like I am meant to share those things with you. I have wanted to do this for a long time and have been pushing it back because I never felt that the time was right. My life was very chaotic, I was super busy, I wasn’t in the right mental headspace, or I was just afraid that I would not be able to fully commit to maintaining a blog and posting as often as I would hope.

But the truth is, there is no good reason why I should keep waiting on something that I know I am meant to do. Life will always be chaotic, I will always be busy, there will always be some hard mental health days, and I will learn as I go!

That being said, I am not sure how often I will post or exactly what all my posts will look like. There may be times when I cannot post as often or times where I am able to post a lot. But I hope that you will be interested to read my posts as they come, and you will share in my life and grow with me!

A lot of what I share will be about my faith and what God is teaching me. He is always showing me new things and giving me new wisdom as I go, and I will share that with you because I know we can all use more wisdom.

The other things I will be sharing are stories and experiences from my life and what God has shown me through all of it. I will be talking a lot about healing from abuse and working through trauma and what that process has looked like for me. I will also be sharing some poems that I have written about those experiences. The things I share will likely have some weight to them, but even with the heaviness of it all, God will always provide hope and a new perspective.

There are many people in my life who don’t really know my story. Even people who have known me for years may not know a lot about my childhood and some of the issues in my family. There are a lot of things that I just wasn’t sure how to talk about or I didn’t feel like it was necessary to share with everyone I know.

I could easily get stuck in fear or shame and never share parts of my story with anyone. But often times God intends to use the worst moments in our lives to help others who go through similar things. I will try to push through the obstacles that come before me and choose to share my life with you as openly and honestly as I am meant to.

I am definitely nervous to share the really hard parts of my life and to have a lot of vulnerability and transparency here. I am used to being open in my life when I interact with people, but not online or through social media. But God has shown me that He wants to use every hardship I have been through to help others, whether that is educating others who have never experienced abuse or trauma or relating to and supporting those who have experienced it.

One of the reasons I chose the name, “Rejoicing in Truth” is because of my own story of speaking the truth. When I was 17, a series of events, that no doubt were ordained by God’s hand, led me to tell the truth about the sexual abuse I had endured. After opening up about that, I was catapulted into so much healing and freedom—and it was all because the truth had been spoken. That was a huge moment of rejoicing in truth for me, and it still is something I rejoice in.

The other reason why I chose that name is because of my faith in the Lord and in His Word. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life and because of that, no matter what is going on in the world and in my own life, I am able to rejoice. I rejoice in the truth of His goodness, of His love, and in the truth of the gospel.

I hope that you and I will learn how to rejoice in the truth more and more on this journey. I pray that God will use what I write to help you in some way, because that’s why I am here. Thanks for showing up,

-Elena ❤