Matthew 10:5-14 Instructions. They are a critical part of life. If I'm assembling something, it is good to read them. If I'm giving them, it's good to be clear. If I submit something to an agent or publisher, it's pretty essential that I read their guidelines...
When someone is hurting or in trouble, I want to help. And when I’m also a person who uses her words, and I have no words to use, I feel helpless.
I don’t want to forget all the doubt heaped upon me in this process, throwing clods of dirt on all of my ideas and mounding impossibility in my path.
Emotionally, I’ve been in a funk. I wonder sometimes what I’m trying to accomplish with all this.
Fast forward three children (they seem to have grown in a flash) and this writing pursuit slowed to a jog. Like the old game “Kick the Can”, I had periods of lightning strike velocities, and then periods of slow skips to a halt.
Year after year, I claim the writer title with some trepidation, though I am working more consistently on projects than I have ever done in my life. The resistance to embracing it probably stems from the rooted fear of never being able to upgrade that title to author.
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