~ 12 years of writing slowly but surely being turned into my first book ~

For years, I stalled on this goal because the actions of working toward it never looked like what I had envisioned.

I thought writing would mean sitting in a quiet peaceful place, surrounded by nature, sipping hot tea with all the time in the world to pour out my thoughts on paper.

But that’s not at all the season of life I’m in nor the way this goal plays out in my day to day. It’s me using voice to text to write in the notes app of my phone during parent pick-up. It’s 5am journaling and getting out of bed at midnight to scribble down a thought that won’t let me rest. It’s snipits of ideas scrawled on the back of receipts and napkins while chasing my kids around and packing snacks. It’s grit and grind, tears and joy and 7000 moments I want to give up. It’s no one watching and no one caring, except me.

I share this because some of you have a stirring in your soul to go after something but your “right now” doesn’t align with what you think you need in order to achieve it. Friends, let me tell you, it never will. If there is a dream in your heart that you can’t stop thinking about, you have to stop waiting for s o m e day. Your life will never look like what you want unless you take action in your right-now-mess to make it what you want.

It will look hard and long and not give you any payback at first. It will take a million small actions that don’t seem to matter but will slowly begin to build and compound on each other until o n e day, when you look back and realize how far you’ve come.

Stay the course, my friends. Make the hard choices. Do the work.

Stop waiting for your ship to come in and start building it!

If God put this in your heart, then He has already equipped you but that doesn’t mean the road will be easy. It will be marked with pain and defeat as well as rest and victory. That’s the rhythm.

Do it for your audience of One. Do it for you.

Do it.