Another brief post before bed. I am still feeling incredibly crappy but fought through that feeling to do some cardio and strength training today. Now I'm feeling crappy and sore, but it's a good sore, right?!?!
In other news, I have started in earnest on my book. It's been percolating for a while. I had hoped to get it done before Christmas but stumbled on my two worst enemies, procrastination and perfectionsism. This book is going to be about my family's journey over the past 5 1/2 years. I am not sure how long it's going to be or when it will be completed. I will soon be starting a FB page for it (when I've hammered out the title) and sharing excerpts on a regular basis.
My hope is that by doing some good marketing I can have a good launch. I am going to self-publish; I don't fool myself that I can find someone to publish it for me. If that's what God wants, I know he can make it happen. However, the impression I have now is that I'm supposed to self-publish.
Really, though, the book is about God. He has been walking next to my family, clutching our hands and protecting us closely this entire time. I want the book to be a testament to his faithfulness, his goodness and his steadfastness.
I am my own worst enemy, though. I am already afraid that I will be so caught up in the minutae that I will never finish it. I think I'm also doing the FB page so that I'm held accountable to be producing more material.
I just ask that you pray me through this, faithful readers. Ask God to guide me through this process. Ask him to put the right people in my path to proofread it, to cheer me on and hold me up when I get tired. I feel very strongly that all of what my family has been through only points to one thing; that there is a loving, all-powerful God and that I am not Him.
I wrote 7400 words today. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but hopefully my competitive streak will be activated and I'll push myself to write at least that many everyday until it's done. I am trying to just write right now. I'm not editing, I'm only correcting spelling. I am just trying to put words on screen. Hopefully, little by little, I can tell this awesome story. I hope people want to read it. I hope people read it and can catch a glimmer of the hope I've received from my loving Abba.
I know God will not give up on me; I know he will help carry me through to the completion of this project.
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