I’ve Got a Golden Ticket…

Willy Wonka ain’t got nuthin on me!

I woke this morning with a direct message from my heavenly Father, reminding me that it doesn’t matter what others might think of what I write, or how perfect my audio recordings may or may not be..

MY CREATOR IS SO PROUD OF ME!!!

Regardless of the outcome of things, I know that if God is proud of my efforts, everything else will be just fine! No, I didn’t say that my life would roll out perfectly from now on, simply because I wrote a story that God finds beautiful… I don’t usually even know if I’m doing the things he wants, until after I’ve done them and he blesses me for it!

AND… if God has, is, and I believe in faith that He will continue to provide all of my needs… everything beyond that is just what it is… extra blessings. If I don’t meet success with this book, or even the ones that will follow… why should it matter to me? The books success won’t really provide me with much more than earthly pleasures. Why should selling it for a profit even matter?

What I truly desire is for others to clearly see what I see, imagine something along with me… something I find beautiful and good!

I’m not carrying a coin purse into heaven when I leave this world, but what I will take with me are my memories, my deeds, both good and bad… and my character! I am a daughter to the Most High, and I would hope that I might display even a hint of Him throughout my earthly life; Christ like behavior, heartfelt writings and a faithful obedience to the one who made this child. I owe my everything to the one who designed me, the One who chose me… even before the very foundations of this world!

Nestled deeply within all of the above dreams, desires, hopes and prayers that I’ve shared with you, is the mention of a story… one that will hopefully become a part of something far more reaching than just a simple tale. My actual dream, is that by the time I’ve finished with all the volumes of this saga, you, the readers, will have discovered the truths that are threaded throughout all of it.

I know that’s a lot to hope for, or expect of those that read these stories, but I’m eternally committed to completing something that I pray will bear good fruit… far more than I desire gold and silver…

… for you, my friends, are far more precious to me!

Less Noise Pollution…

Daily writing prompt
How would you design the city of the future?

Sorry, but not only don’t I have any snappy responses to our daily doohickie… but, after having no internet all day, and a ton of other things that need doing… I got nothin!

Except, that is, cookies… those I got!

Thursday Thoughts…

This picture should sufficiently describe what it felt like this morning.

Let me explain…

I had this grand plan to wake up at 4 a.m. this morning, in order to have peace and quiet for the audio recordings of my book.

Yes, I did indeed arise at the brain breaking hour of 4 a.m., and yes, I am finally finished with the main edit of my novel. All that is left for me to do, is the audio cuts, the printing of the manuscript, and then mailing it to myself for the Poor Man’s Copyright.

I got up… made coffee, and had my quiet time… and set to work!

Literally, just as I hit the record button for the first read, my neighbor in the RV next to us started up his big diesel truck! It was barely 5 a.m. folks… why?????

Add to that, we lost internet early on and it didn’t get restored until about 45 minutes ago, ergo, the reason why this post is so very late in the day.

All problems aside though, it’ll get done… one way or the other, right?!

Now Don’t Start Tha’ Again…

Daily writing prompt
Where did your name come from?

This prompt question made me think of that scene in “The Jungle Book” where the vultures keep asking the same question, over and over again… “So, what ya wanna do?”

I have had to explain my name, and/or nickname, so many times now that I’m pretty over it… sorry, not sorry!

Here, have a cookie…

At least I’m not trying to serve you the same cookie, over and over again!

Wednesday Words…

While Eustace may have cleared his drug test, he still has to do company services to make up for any offenses, and raise the money to pay for car repairs on the CEO’s Bentley.

*F.Y.I* – That car was dinged up on one side, far earlier than the shopping cart races… I’m just making an observation.

Oh well! So, hey… anybody up for a free car wash?

He Has Good Plans…

Daily writing prompt
What motivates you?

I fell in love with this particular version of Jeremiah 29, which pretty much sums up my motivations… or in real words, what gets me up out of bed each and every day!

It’s called Good Plans, by Red Rocks Worship…

Enjoy a cookie while you listen…

Busy, Busy, Busy…

Too much work to do, today, what with being nearly at the end of my first edit run. I can’t stay long, but I wanted to check in before heading back to my book work…

Good Morning, friends! Have an awesome day out there… eat well and make good choices… hehehe!

First, Let Me Check the Weather…

Daily writing prompt
What are your top ten favorite movies?

Everyone knows that one’s movie choices and go-to’s are always relative to what the weather is, how work is going, and/ or if the kids are a bunch of bum Nuggets, etc.

For example, cold winter weather brings out “The Sound of Music, Lonesome Dove, The Tenth Kingdom, Ladyhawk, The Hobbit, all three Lord of the Rings, Arthur Christmas, Scrooged, and of course, The Grinch!”

Now if the weather seems fine, but I’m in a funk, out comes, all of the “Harry Potter’s”, which should be seven, if you weren’t counting… plus “Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks!”

Since my kids are pretty consistent about being the disrespectful little rodents that they normally are, their behavior no longer bothers me, as it once did. But I will throw in ten more fun fav’s, like “Pirate’s of The Caribbean (we’ll just count one, instead of five), all four of the Indiana Jones movies, and the entire Jurassic Park series”… which should make ten for this list.

Maybe now you’ll agree that our lists of favorite anything, are relative to what our state of mind is in, at the moment the question is being asked.

I’ve a list of musicals that feel like my favorites when I’m in a singing mood, but I’ve also a group of my fav’s in the categories of Humor, Action/Adventure, Animated movies, Romantic, etc.

See how the lists keep getting bigger? Maybe it has more to do with me not wanting to be forced into a box with questions like these… who knows, but as Forest Gump always says, “That’s all I got to say about that.”

Here, have a cookie…

They’re one of my favorites!

Monday Mine Work…

If I wish to offer my readers an adventure worth discovering, well then, I best dig deep!

No miner worth her salt would write a book, without unearthing all the valuable’s for you to find within the story…

I best get back to it, then!

Pure Imagination…

Daily writing prompt
What do you enjoy most about writing?

Here’s some of my magic cookies…