Join me on this journey, that the Lord is leading me on. Come with me on my ups and downs as I learn to walk closer with the Lord and learn who I am in Him. As I follow this path of a writer and see where it leads maybe you can get a few laughs in as well as tears. And maybe just maybe you can learn something from me.

Going off the deep end. Yep that’s what I’m doing. No no I’m not going crazy, all though I’m sure there are those that would disagree if they knew what my goals were. Wait….what’s that? Heather has goals?? No freaking way! LOL Yep that’s right folks I have goals. Wanna know what they are? LOL Well I ain’t telling ya. Let’s just say they are very ambitious for someone that has done their best to look lazy.
Couple of weeks ago God nudged me to do something. Writing related. Man it freaked me out. I wanted confirmation. I wanted lotsa confirmation! Guess what? I didn’t get any. LOL But I didn’t get told that I shouldn’t be doing it so I’m taking it as one of those step of faith things. Okay I’ll tell ya. I believe He wants me to pitch two completed books in September. So I finally get to the point of accepting that and He nudges me again. Tells me He said pitch two, He didn’t tell me how many to write. I’m sorry? What was that?
So, for you mathematically challenged, that’s four books in ten months. Stop your gasping and shaking of your heads with the thought poor child she’s done lost it! I don’t know. I can’t explain it. It’s just something that I totally feel like it’s God. This is what He wants for me in the coming year; I feel it with everything in me. There’s more confidence there then there ever has been. It’s still small but it’s growing. And the fear that usually has me paralyzed… not there. Well not true. It’s there a little… saying yeah it’s all right to be confident when you haven’t started on it but wait til you do! But it’s small and I keep telling it to shut the hell up. Been trying to get this holiday mailing out for my client, when I finish I’ll begin work on everything. I even have a game plan people. Shocked? Yep, me too. LOL
Here’s the thing. I acknowledge that these 4 projects in ten months, is a bit insane. Especially for someone like me but this is the path that God has put me on. I’m going to go after it. I may fail. I may succeed. It doesn’t matter which. Just as long as I obey. And I know doing this is way beyond me, but hey you know, that gives God more glory this way. It’s all about Him. He will get all the credit for this because we both know this isn’t something I can do on my own.
I’m going off the deep end. Won’t be no swan dive… probably be an ugly belly flop but just as long as I get there. I’m diving in.
Dive by Steven Curtis Chapman
The long awaited rains
Have fallen hard upon the thirsty ground
Have carved their way to where
The wild and rushing river can be found
And like the rains
I have been carried here to where the river flows, yeah
My heart is racing and my knees are weak
As I walk to the edge
I know there is no turning back
Once my feet have left the ledge
And in the rush I hear a voice
That's telling me it's time to take a leap of faith
So here I go!
I'm diving in
I'm going deep
In over my head I want to be
Caught in the rush
Lost in the flow
In over my head I want to go
The river’s deep
The river’s wide
The river’s water is alive
So sink or swim I'm diving in
There is a supernatural power
In this mighty river’s flow
It can bring the dead to life
And it can fill an empty soul
And give a heart the only thing
Worth living and worth dying for
But we will never know the awesome power
Of the grace of God
Until we let ourselves get swept away
Into this holy flood
So if you'll take my hand
We'll close our eyes and count to three
And take the leap of faith
Come on let's go!
I'm diving in
I'm going deep
In over my head I want to be
Caught in the rush
Lost in the flow
In over my head I want to go
The river’s deep
The river’s wide
The river’s water is alive
So sink or swim I'm diving in
Blessings y’all!