Having a writing career has been a serious dream of mine since high school. I toyed with the idea at a younger age, but I began to be more serious about it later. My friends and I had the same study hall hour and shared a table in the back corner of the school library. We had finished all of our homework, or sometimes had so little of it we could finish it quickly at home. This hour together was used to bounce writing ideas around in our group of four or five girls. Most of us wrote poetry, songs, and stories. I had begun three novels but didn’t finish them before graduation and adult life. Memories of those times are even more precious than the hours of sharing our muse was then. I would say they are even priceless. Our little group was not as sophisticated as The Inklings with C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, but it worked for us. Three of us are still in regular contact with one another. We each have our families and things we are involved in, and one of us lives several states away now. Two of us live less than an hour apart and try to visit often.

Recently, I was cleaning out and sorting things I hadn’t seen in years and found a shallow stationery box that was full of something. When I opened it I was surprised to see some of the things I had written in high school! There were poems and the three novels I had started in that study hall. Those treasures were thought to be lost forever in the fire that destroyed our house my senior year, but here they were in my hands. I may finish them someday, but for now, I have new energy for a new beginning; new life in my writing endeavors.

A few years ago I joined our local chapter of American Christian Fiction Writers and they have inspired me to finish my debut novel that I started a few years ago. Meanwhile, for the past two years, I submitted a short story to our annual anthologies, which have now been published. This has served to spur me on to finish the writing projects I have started and see them through to being published. I have felt that this is one of the purposes God has for me and look forward to where He leads me through this journey.

What is something you feel God has placed on your heart? Have you completed it yet, or is it in process? I hope you accomplish all you’re meant to and that you enjoy the journey.

I pray you are having a blessed week.