Introduction & Purpose
October 13, 2021 | Wisdom | No Comments
Hello, my name is Hunter See, and I am the author behind Seasons. I am excited about this opportunity that God has laid on my heart to endeavor into. About a year ago, a very dear friend said to me, “Hunter, you should write a blog!” When she said this to me, I gave the normal responses of avoidance, “I don’t have the time;” “it’s just not really my thing;” and “I’m not even a good writer anyway.” During this same time, I was taking a college course on Digital Media for Ministry, and within the scope of that class, there was a great emphasis given to blogging. So, I began to ponder on the thought. The idea did not truly solidify in my heart and mind until I went into a recent seasonal change of life. In the initial weeks of that new season, I began to have so many thoughts flood my mind; thus, I sat down and just started typing. Before I knew it, I realized, “Maybe I could do this.” I put a feeler post out on Facebook to see if anyone would even be interested, and I received some very positive and encouraging feedback. So, Seasons was birthed.
Above, is the brief story behind the blog itself, so now let me introduce you to me and some of the explanation behind the subtitle and the underlying passion.
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Who: The Author
So, who am I?
As I said before, my name is Hunter See. I am currently a part-time youth pastor on staff at Keystone Baptist Church in Berryville, Virginia. I have been serving in the ministry here for nearly three years so far. I also am a graduate student at Veritas Baptist College, where I am working on my Master of Ministry with a concentration in Biblical Counseling. I am projected to graduate from that program in May of 2022 with a Bachelor of Biblical Studies with a Concentration in Pastoral Ministries. Before coming to Keystone at the end of 2018, I was in a very transitional season of my life. I had just finished my four-year term as a paralegal in the United States Army and moved back home to the Berryville area. It was during this transitional season that half of the heart behind Seasons was birthed (I just did not know it at the time).
The Lord saved me by His grace at the end of my senior year when I was seventeen. It was May 17th, 2014. Interestingly, for about nine months prior to that, I had this strange urging in my heart toward preaching. Obviously, I was not saved, so I did not surrender to that calling; but, three months after God saved me (July 17th, 2014), I did surrender to His call on my life. Then, three days after that, I left home for the Army. I was in the service for four years and plugged into an amazing church during the last three years of that time. Much will probably come in my blog from my experience during those times.
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What: The Content
So, what will you see in Seasons?
First off, you will see most posts laid out like you see this one. I am a man of organization, structure, and uniformity when it comes to the function of ministries. So, most posts will be laid out like this one. The beauty of organization is that it prepares the soil for abnormality to flourish. There will be times when, in order to get the importance or the impact of a post across, I will break the normal layout; but even that will have its purpose.
My posts will have a variety of flavors but will focus on a handful of different foundations. Sometimes, I may write a post from a message that I have prepared or preached. There will be other times that I may come across something in my personal devotion time with the Lord and write on it. At times, I may write deeply from the heart of what I am facing and going through. Being a twenty-four-year-old single Christian, I will probably write on dating and relationships as well from time to time; not as an expert, but as someone amid the fires that we call dating in our generation. Occasionally, I will write multi-part series from one post to the next. My heart toward this blog is that it will be real, raw, transparent, edifying, and growth-cultivating. I have an intense burden for wisdom-based living, so my posts will highly focus on the practical application and daily living-out of God’s direction to us in His Word.
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Why: Mission and Passion
So, where did this come from?
I gave a summary at the beginning of this post of how my heart was moved to write Seasons. Here, I would like to address the Bible-based philosophy behind the mission and passion that I have through this blog. You will notice that, though the blog is generically entitled Seasons, its full title is Seasons: Rising and Falling Under His Hand.
The idea behind Seasons being the title is woven throughout this post already. There is a steady trend and clear teaching in Scripture that life occurs in seasons. You will hear more about this in a more targeted post.
This subtitle comes from two passages of Scripture that have greatly impacted my life. One was used by the Lord during that transitional period of my life that I talked about at the end of my Army career; that verse is 2 Peter 5:6, “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.” The second of these verses is a very recently impactful one for me, it is Proverbs 24:16, “For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked will fall into mischief.” I will probably write two posts very early pertaining to each of these individual verses and their impact on my life.
One more thing that you will notice is the passion statement under the title of the blog, “Writing to the hearts of those who are in the valleys and on the mountaintops.” This is truly it … This is one of the primary reasons that I decided to take this step and try this blogging thing. I have a burden for people. I have been there. I have not been everywhere, but I have been there. I know pain. I know grief. I know loss. I know heartache and heartbreak. I know broken-home raising. I know failure. I know the valleys of loneliness and depression, and I know the mountaintops of overcoming sin and truly walking in spiritual victory. So, with the little experience that I have, I desire to reach the hearts of those that are in both places and different seasons of their lives.
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I apologize for the length of this post, but I wanted to do my due diligence to explain just what Seasons is. One last thing you will notice is that I will sign the posts as “V.S. See”. This is simply a signature that I wanted to take on for anything that I write, be it blog posts, poems, songs, or maybe books one day. The V and S are simply my middle initials, so there is nothing complicated behind it. Thank you for taking the time to read. I love you all and God is good.
Until we write again…..
In, for, and because of Christ,
V.S. See