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Did you ever notice God loves to start from scratch?
Like so many Christian authors, never did I intend to write and I certainly never intended to write a book. Therefore, when people ask, “How did you ever start to write a book”, I tell them, “With a letter to my Dad”. It turned out to be the launch pad for this book.
In 1993, I wrote a personal letter to my dad on Father’s Day as a special gift using a story I remembered from childhood depicting my tender relationship with him. I paralleled the story to the precious relationship I had with my heavenly Father. I wrote another story for my mother on Mother’s Day a year later. For whatever reason, I then changed course and picked up portrait art for several years.
But, in 2007, I sensed God urging me to put down my pastels and begin writing again. I truly felt that if I did not write, I would literally explode. Through the leading of the Holy Spirit, like water, the stories began to pour out of me onto my computer keyboard. Sensing also that God did not intend for me to write for an audience of only One, I approached our local newspaper about publishing a weekly Christian column. Readily accepted, it ran for 3 years. A year and a half into publishing the columns, my readers encouraged me to put them into a book.
I consider writing as a ministry. I never felt the call to travel abroad to foreign countries to preach the gospel in places without electricity, running water or flushing toilets. But just look around. People are walking in darkness all around us; many of them are right here in our churches. If you are not only a believer, but a true FOLLOWER OF CHRIST, you have a mission to tell others not just how He saved you, but how He leads you every single day. With boldness and passion, step out and share Christ to a dying and wayward world. Heaven and earth testifies to the power and glory of God. Our lives should testify to the world of the glory and power of God. Find your way to do that, in Jesus’ name.
