It all starts with the first step. I have been holding back from pursuing my ‘thing’. You know the thing I’m talking about. The ‘thing’ that feeds you, drives you, motivates you, and gives your life purpose. My ‘thing’ began in me as a seed planted by God when I was a child. Through the years of living in the real world, my real-world thinking told me my seed didn’t matter. Nothing would come of it, it was impossible. The real world told me it was a silly dream, and that I wasn’t born with the right name, or social status, or even in the right place. After all, I am just a simple country girl in a small town in Southeast Indiana.
I have family members who do not even read books, or have a grasp on the English language, so who am I? Who am I to think that I can be an author? Just because I made up stories and characters and loved to read books to escape my reality. The reality of a childhood that led me to sit in class and create different scenarios in hopes that they would come true so that I wouldn’t have to go home at the end of the school day. It wasn’t much fun being a realist. I preferred the world of make-believe, where I could make the world a safer and better place, and provide a happy ending. Oh yeah, and to be funny and entertaining while I was creating these tales. Because I like to laugh and make others laugh. Fast forward to the present, after marrying young, raising three kids, becoming a grandmother, and working a day job to help pay the bills, here I am. Still working my day job. The only thing different, the only thing new, is I’m taking my first steps. My first steps of discovering that seed that was planted long ago, the seed that I buried under the lies of my reality. The TRUTH is that what God began in me is going to be brought forth in me and through me. He will bring it to completion. I want to be a writer. I am a writer. I just have to write. I hope you will join me as I take this first step, and I hope to encourage you, no matter where you are on life’s journey, to take the first step to find your ‘thing’. It doesn’t matter where you started, why you stopped, or where you’ve been.
I will leave you with this quote: Until I step into the ring I’ll never know what kind of anointing I have. – Sarah Jakes Roberts♥
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