First and foremost, THANK YOU to all of you who said such encouraging sweet words about the announcement that I’m writing a book. I was so touched that you guys said you couldn’t wait to pre-order it, whenever that point comes (can’t promise any dates at this point 🤦🏻♀️). And though the past 4 years of my life have been consumed with new motherhood, your words reminded me so lovingly that my words I share across this world wide web still matter to you. My heart is so grateful for your friendship we have shared over the past decade through my different blogs.
However… from the moment I shared my announcement with you 2 weeks ago… it has been one thing after another coming against me. First, my website was hacked. Had to figure that one out hours of investigation later that is now resolved. 🙄
Then we traded in my car… hours of time at dealerships later. With 2 wild orangoutangs I call my kids. 😳
Then my grandpa went into the hospital. And the hours of worry and prayer later that come when a loved one’s health declines. 😔
Then with all these crazy low rates, we decided to refinance our home, and the mound of paperwork later that comes with that. 🙃
Then this… then that… then another mix of this and that… all while managing the circus show I call my two toddlers’ daily life. 🤪 #sendhelp
And here I am, 2 weeks later, finally sitting down long enough to write another blog entry, and afterward open the files of my book to finally, finally, *finally* get to writing.
In the whirlwind of feeling defeat the past 2 weeks, I just kept reminding myself, all the greatest heroes of the Bible, they all came up against opposition. And nothing happened right away.
God never once said to anyone in the Bible, “Hey, I’m going to use you for this cool story, and it’s going to go smoothly, and it’s going to happen tomorrow.” No, instead, He simply called each of them to trust Him, take those steps of faith in obedience, follow Him on a great adventure not ever knowing the destination, that sometimes took hundreds of years to fulfill, that would be celebrated and told through the generations for thousands of years to come.
So as I set out on this adventure to write my book, I ask for your grace in the waiting. I’m trying to keep in mind progress over perfection. And that means, progress might happen all at once in a large chunk of time like this Sunday afternoon when my husband is watching the kids and I am holed up in a corner of the house behind a locked door with my laptop. Or even with the best of intentions, progress might be delayed 2 weeks, a month, and God-willing, not a few years last it has been in the past.
When I look at the original files of my book, they date back to 2014. This book has already been 6 years in the making, with so many twists and turns that developed that I couldn’t have imagined when I first wrote the opening words. And while the past 2 weeks have felt like defeat in trying to make progress, I’m choosing to rise up and say, “Is anything to hard for the Lord? No!” -Genesis 18:14 NCV. And just keep taking another step, and another, because I know it will one day lead to victory at the finish line.
