Set Your Sights On Things Above
We so quickly get our eyes off God. Let's get back into
perspective.
perspective.
11/12/2013
November 12th, 2013Saturday and Sunday morning I was getting discouraged about my writing. I have several projects started, several plotted, and a few in the beginning stages of mapping out. But I can't seem to get the one that I'm on finished satisfactorily. I feel like I'm pushing through a fast-moving creek going the wrong way. On the way to church Sunday morning I had the thought that maybe God really doesn't want me concentrating on my writing - maybe I should just give up. I don't want to, mind you - but I was really wondering.
Then I got to church - a couple and their grown daughter who moved away a few years ago came back to town for a weekend visit. The daughter stopped me after the service and told me she's been following my blog and that she really enjoys it. She said she thought I was very good at expressing my thoughts in writing. I'm not repeating her words to get a pat on the back, but rather to say I felt like God gave me that little word of encouragement from an unexpected source. She didn't have to say anything at all, but she did. And I felt like it was just a breath of fresh air from Heaven. So I gave myself a bit of a day off yesterday - not alot of social media, no pressure to get to writing if I didn't feel anything. Sometimes Jesus told the disciples to come apart and rest, because He knew they needed the lessening of pressure at times. I needed that too, and today I'm thinking better. What a blessing to have gotten that one word of encouragement from her. She may not have realized how much it meant to me. I want her to know how much I needed it that day. Thank you. Sometimes you just need a little bit of encouragement, and isn't it nice when God brings it without you asking? |
AuthorI'm Sherry Chamblee, aspiring author of Christian fiction, mom of six, wife to a cool dude, and caregiver to his granny. Besides that, I am just little old me - it's just a phrase, I'm not really old, honest. Check out my new release!
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