What do I do here? What is “The End Time” blog about?

By Elizabeth Prata

It’s 2024, and a new year. A fresh start. I’ve been blessed with many new readers and visitors to the site lately. I think it’s a good time to write a bit about me what I do here, and my goals with this blog and podcast.

I love the logarithmic spiral. To me it shows the creativity and precision of God who made the mollusk who inhabited the shell who knew to make the next chamber’s size to account for its next stage of growth.

I was converted as an adult in 2004. I was 43 years old. God is gracious to transfer me from the kingdom of darkness where there is only sin, to His kingdom of Light where there is joy and holiness. Over 4 decades of sin was washed away in a moment when He justified me (declared me righteous, IN His Son Jesus).

Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1)

I had a blog I’d started in 2006 called The Quiet Life. It was a relief to be able to write and self-publish. Before blogs came along, even before the internet came along (yes I’m THAT old!) gatekeepers to publishing held on to the doors tightly and hurdles to get published were high. Then came the internet and chat boards, then blogs, and finally streaming and podcasting. Now anyone could say something and send it into the ether to be read by the public.

I had been published a very few times in my adult life. Once in a literary journal, once in an academic education journal. I was overjoyed now that I could write and choose to publish it on my blog whenever I wanted to.

I process information by reading, of course, and then writing. I’ve always kept a notebook with me, often chronicling things, or jotting down observations. My favorite book in elementary school was Harriet the Spy, about a girl who obsessively chronicled things and wrote down observations in her notebook she always had with her. 🙂

I noticed a short after salvation that my personal musings on my blog were turning more religiously focused on Jesus. I decided to create a separate blog. The Quiet Life is about art, music, general life. I created The End Time in 2009 to write about what I was observing in the Bible, to distill complex theology into manageable (for me) bytes so I could understand the Lord’s word. And to use what I detected in me was a Spiritual Gift of Discernment.

Why “The End Time”? We are IN the end time. That’s the time between Jesus’ ascension and His return when He is building His church. The title is to remind us that all this will end one day. We are not citizens of earth but citizens of heaven. He may return any time, or we may be called home any time and called to account for our works while on earth after He saved us. Are we using the time well, for His glory? We must be about the Father’s business.

It is my joy to write and podcast for you; always pointing to Jesus, to exhort for a holier lifestyle in discernment, and passing along credible ministry links. These are my three goals with this blog.

I work full time as a para-professional in a school as the Literacy Interventionist. I help kids learn to read better. I enjoy books, art, classical and Southern Gospel music, and writing!