How do you begin?
I have thought about and wanted to write a book since I was a little girl.
I remember writing on my dads first office computer…I must have been 7 or 8 and it was some sort of reflection on life being a bowl of cherries. Some are rotten, some are ripe, and as I think back to that I laugh at the simplicity of my thoughts and at the same time how true they were.
For years I have journaled, blogged, written short essays…
My college majors (each of the 10 times I changed them) all were in classes where I had to write, because I love to share…I love words…I love poetry…and I feel like there are so many things to share but the most challenging part for me…
The Start.
When you have a million ideas which one do you start with?
What if NO ONE ever reads it?
What sort of book does God want me to write?
What if is sucks?
What if it makes no sense at all…
What if, What if, What if…
So I have been in this spiral of What if…until I took the time in 2020 to see that if I stay in the What if then “It” will never happen…
The “It”, the uncertain outcome, the time that is passing…that is much worse in my opinion than any writing I do.
I have journals full of poems I plan to put together.
I have weekly devotional reflections I am writing for my Clients in our Wellness Community
And now…I am going to start my first book which will be about the miracles in the messy middle…
The courage of walking into hard places to find grace and gifts.
The way that grief almost swallows you up sometimes until you realize that God’s grace and healing are showing upon you and not washing the pain away but redeeming it for something greater…
I have the chapters planned…
I have the thoughts flowing…
and so I am asking you to please pray for me and with me as I right…
It is scary, and exciting, and I know it will take time and work…
But I also know that its the fulfillment of a dream I have had for some time that I didn’t make up on my own…I truly feel God is telling me to pick up my pen.
Is there something you have always wanted to do that you are afraid to start?
I want to encourage you today friend…just start…
Don’t wait for perfect timing…Don’t wait for perfect…
I am starting…I am doing this for my Mom…I am doing this for Elise…I am doing this for my two babies in Heaven…I am doing this for my children…and I am doing this for me…
So HERE WE GO,
