GeNarrations Winter Session 2021
Theme
Striving for Greatness
“God isn’t looking for your perfection, He’s looking for your yes.” This was said by Matt Tommey in his 5 day Artist Rise Up! Challenge. I saw the ad for it on Facebook. God has told Matt to raise up an army of artists, (in the broadest use of the word, including writers). He’s encouraging us to remember that we were uniquely designed by God for a specific purpose. We are the only ones who can be us and do the assignment God created us for. Matt has a mentoring program designed to give us that mindset, show us what skills we need and how to get them, and how to make a living following God’s plan for our lives.
At the same time I was in Matt’s challenge I was part of the way through a 31 day Wisdom Challenge by Pedro Adeo. Beginning January 1, Pedro and his guests took a Proverb a day and discussed it. They shared their personal testimonies about how following the teachings of the Bible helped them start and grow their businesses. He also has a mentoring program and I was considering enrolling in it.
When I started listening to Matt, who was saying very much the same things Pedro and his guests were saying, I hesitated for awhile wondering which one I should get into. Pedro was gearing his teaching toward entrepreneurs, or those who want to become entrepreneurs and Matt was working with creatives. I decided that I fit better into that category and enrolled with Matt.
While I know my calling, or assignment from God is to write, I was not given clear details on who I am to write for or what I am to write and I have been seeking to find the answers. It is my hope that the mentoring program will help me to discover that.
I want to become excellent at what I write and be able to make a comfortable living from it. I used to be able to imagine a book I wrote becoming a best seller. I would travel the country doing book signings and speaking at conferences, schools, and other venues. I had stopped believing that was possible, but I want to get it back.
God delights in doing what we see as impossible to show off His power. He can keep me healthy and give me the energy to keep up such a pace well into my 90’s, if it takes that long.
I am looking for more chances to submit my writings and have made 5 submissions and queried an agent this month. Two were submissions were already rejected. Most of the markets I submitted to are non-paying and only give one, or sometimes a few more, copies of a printed publication. The majority are online only, not even in print. But an acceptance by one, or more of them, will give me name recognition .and another addition to my portfolio. And there is a sense of achievement and pride from being published.
I have lived most of my life already and feel like I wasted much of it. I have to keep striving with the time I have left and not give up. That’s why I titled my personal blog something I want to keep reminding myself “It’s Never Too Late!”
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE! 