Writer's Block

The last few days I've really struggled with writing posts. I'll come up with a nugget of an idea but I'm not able to flesh it out or keep it from running down a rabbit trail. Writer's block can be so frustrating.

I can't help but wonder, did the writer's of the Gospels suffer from writer's block? Did Paul? If they were receiving inspiration from the Holy Spirit did that inspiration ever dry up? If so what would that mean?

You could not help but feel that your relationship with God has suffered when He is no longer speaking through you. And this is not only for writers and artists. For anyone who is trying to serve God we suffer from periods of writers block. Our ministry is struggling, or failing to get off the ground. We search and search for a spark but none is there.

When God does not speak to us it can be a deafening silence. Sometimes we try to force His voice. We speak but He is not in it. Other times we give up. We feel that God has abandoned us or isn't with us in our mission so we move on. 

But is that what He means, how can we know? How much more comforting would it be to know that Paul got writer's block too.