What I Do Not Want to Leave Unwritten

For the next generation and anyone willing to listen.

Lately, I have been thinking about the truths I have learned from Scripture and the lessons life has taught me. They have shaped and corrected me. I do not want them to end with me.

A recent near-death experience deepened that reflection. I want less noise and enough stillness to listen to God. In that quiet, an urgency has been growing in my heart.

I need to write.

If we have not met, my name is Abraham Thomas. I have served in ministry for three decades. For more than two of those decades, I have traveled across Asia as a missionary evangelist, leadership trainer, and humanitarian.

Much of that work has meant showing up. Getting on a plane. Leaving my family for weeks at a time. Standing in the room with people.

Presence matters. But it is tied to a place. If I speak only when I am in the room, those words go no farther than I do.

Writing can go where I cannot. It can stay where I am unable to remain. It may reach someone I will never meet, perhaps even in a generation I will never see.

I want to document the persuasions I have come to hold and the discoveries that have changed my thinking. Experience is not the authority. Scripture is. But experience can teach us what it looks like to live that truth under pressure.

I am all about transformation from the inside out. I hope something I write will spark that kind of change in you and help you take the next faithful step.

This will be a place to think carefully, write plainly, and pass on what has been entrusted to me. I will write about walking with God, the inner life, relationships, leadership, and the wisdom we need to live faithfully.

I am still learning. Still listening.

I cannot remain in every room.

But perhaps the truth can.