For most of my life -- really since I learned to put pen to paper -- I've been aware of two things: 1) all I really want to do is write; and 2) people are always telling me I should write. I'm a self-proclaimed Word Nerd. I love reading words, writing words, making words up, stringing words together to mean something! And somewhere along the line, with all modesty, I came to believe that I do, in fact, have something of a gift with the written word. Without a doubt, I say plainly, that gift is from God.
About a year ago, after a lot of prayer and discussion with my husband, I quit my job. My reason for quitting a good job in a horrible economy is fairly simple: life is too short to work for a crazy person. Seriously, the mental anguish I went through in trying to deal with a woman who is incredibly controlling and often unreasonable and irrational was having a negative effect on my home life. I frequently came home angry or in tears. By the very name of my blog, angry and tearful are just not who I am, nor who I want to be.
For the first few months, I just enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom. Then our health insurance began being deducted from my husband's check. Ouch. So I started looking for a job. And while I was looking for a job, I began to pray. And write. And pray and write some more.
I prayed for a job in which I could be happy. I prayed for God to direct my steps in my search. I also prayed for the wisdom to see the door when He opened it for me. And I prayed -- and this was a totally new prayer for me -- that if He wanted me to use the gift He gave me for His glory, that God would help me find a way.
I began writing a few short stories that soon became not-so-short. I also began work on a book. Romance, of course. (Insert happy face here, lol.) And I prayed a lot more.
So here I am, a year after quitting a "real job". I've published two books for Kindle on Amazon. I've only sold two copies of one of them. It's a start.
"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (Colossians 3:17) That's what I'm trying to do. I want to use the gift God gave me to bring glory to Him.
