I can’t speak for anyone else, but I know my life looks nothing like I thought it might!
Turns out, there’s a lot more to sailing this ship than I’d realized…
No one wants to arrive at their destinations with a messy ride. I’m trying to focus on tidying up along the way… and be pleasantly surprised when I reach wherever I’m supposed to be going!
Here, have a cookie…
The odds of those who actually end up exactly where they pictured after a year are not that good, I’d wager.
I can’t even look at the prompt without breaking out into laughter… my life now looks nothing like I pictured it might, this time last year.
From the place that I was in at that time, you probably don’t want to know what I expected things to be now… I was just returning from the deadlands, as I’ve called them.
It’s hard to believe that we’ve been here since last October… I didn’t even fully start back to writing until March of this year. I had a very very long writers block! Life Interruptus as I refer to it.
The odd thing is… even though our circumstances are still not what I thought they might be, my writing seems to be deepening. It feels kind of like writing in the fire… letting the flames and heat of a tough journey fuel my writing passions.
The tougher the obstacles, the deeper I write. I think of what it takes to make a really good sword… both Fire and Ice can strengthen the metal so that in battle, it will remain unbreakable!
If you had asked me last year if I was going to be writing a book and making friends in the Lobby, I would have scoffed… I was so broken that I could barely get out of bed!
I have stopped trying to figure out what will be next year, next month, or even next week… I let God figure things out and I follow His lead… One Day at a Time! Let’s be honest here, there are days that I walk minute by minute.
I have discovered that God is the best planner, the best motivator, the best provider, and the BEST Gift Giver! Whatever I dream up, He will trump it! It might not seem that to you, but it is real for me…
For now, I’m going to work on what I picture things to be like tonight… for dinner… and maybe a show with my man…
Here, have a cookie…
Journey With Me! 