Feeling Encouraged!

If I were to say anything to encourage anyone today, it would be KEEP GOING. You might have big dreams and are working toward a certain goal but run into road blocks along the way. You might get distracted, sidetracked and plain ole' stopped in your tracks...but! Don't give up!! I have always wanted to be an author. A best selling author at that. For as long as I can remember. I remember when I was 5(give or take a few years! LOL), I wrote my first poem. It was read at my great grandmother's funeral. The poem was:

Life is Nice
I like it fine.
You can not have it twice
It's just a matter of time.

OK! LOL! First of all, now at the ripe age of 38 I look back on that poem as I've done in recent years and wondered WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD THEY READ THAT AT A FUNERAL??? LOL!! Is that depressing or WHAT? LOL! I remember that day clearly. As soon as the poem was read, everyone began to CRY harder! Now, I understand why. I did not know my great grandmother too well, so I wasn't all that sad but I remember feeling pretty good that my poem was being read at her funeral. I also remember what gave me the first inspiration for that poem. A movie. I can't remember what it was about but I remember the title "A Matter Of Time". I remember that sparked something in me so I just wrote a poem about it. Wow!

I remember being in Middle School and I decided one day that I was going to write a book. After all, I always wrote. Stories, poems, journals. I just like to write and during those preteen/teen years, I found that I felt better when I wrote my feelings down. So, I began to write my book. I had all these ideas rolling around in my head and I wrote page after page after page. (guess what? I still have those pages) I remember my hands getting tired, my wrists hurt. I didn't have a typewriter. I didn't know what a computer was and the thoughts was coming faster than I could write! Pretty soon, that grew old so I just stuck with the basics of writing poems, stories and journaling but I never let go of writing a book one day.
Well to make a long story short and to get to my point, I went through some ROUGH times. My "out" was to write about them. It was my way of talking to God and doing what I've always done...tell the world on paper. It made me feel better. As I wrote I would cry and get it all out. I truly believe that doing this throughout my life kept me sane.

ANYWAY, my point is... I never gave up! Last year, yes..last year..my dream was realized. I became an author. Could I have done it sooner? Probably, but I believe that last year was my appointed time. 37 years old. I have run into road block after road block trying to get this book published! But, TO GOD BE THE GLORY, I am sitting here right now with 3 boxes full of my books that i am about to market! God is GOOD!! I am excited about the future. Will I be a best selling author one day? This is only the first of many books...who knows? All I know is that I feel a sense of accomplishment and I am encouraged that IF YOU DON'T QUIT..Y0UR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE. It might not be in your timing but if you remain faithful, it WILL come to pass. Of course I am receiving best seller status one day but my prayer has always been that even if I don't, I am asking God that this book of encouragement blesses everyone who reads it and that it falls in the hands of anyone that needs it!!! That each person will find deliverance somewhere in it's pages. GOD, JUST GET THE GLORY!!! I feel really encouraged today. I feel good and I give God glory!