I like to think that I have an open mind.  I try not to have preconceived notions about things before I experience them for myself.

For example, I will try new foods to see how they taste before I decide if I like them or not.  I don’t make decisions based on their name or the way they look or because someone else tells me they don’t like them.  It used to make me crazy when my kids would just look at a food and say they didn’t like it.  Most of the food they used to say that about they now love – all because they took some time and a little risk and they tried them.

I was flipping through the channels on my television the other day and I came across a preacher I had never heard of before.  So, I decided to listen to him and see what his message was.  He was a little bit too much full of fire and brimstone for me but, as I said, I like to listen before I make any judgments.

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I don’t know about you but I have found that there seems to be a certain time of the day that God works on me.  For me, this is generally about three in the morning.

As grateful as I am that God spends time with me or working on me, I find that His intervention at three in the morning leads to some very bleary-eyed days.

Generally, I find that at 3am, I wake with wonderful ideas swirling around in my head; ideas that I would not have normally thought of but that make me realize that it must be God trying to work through me and my writing.

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As I write this I am on a plane flying home from being out of town.

While sitting here looking out the window, I started to remember how I used to be such a white-knuckled flier. Any change in a noise, little bump, turn, or anything else unexpected used to make my heart jump into my throat.  My heart would start to pound, I would start to sweat, and I would hold onto the arm rests so tightly you would have thought that I would have broken them off.

I would be so worked up about flying that sometimes I wouldn’t calm down until the day after the flight.   Now that I look back, this is a funny story, but one night after flying I was at my father’s house in Florida.  The central air conditioning unit was outside the window of the bedroom I was sleeping in.  On the night that I had arrived I was sleeping as the air conditioning unit ran.  In the middle of the night the unit turned off and I jumped out of bed in a sweat thinking I was still on the plane and the engines had just quit. 

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I hope that you will allow me to take some of your time to say a special thank you to you – my readers.  And to tell you a little story about how almost anything that we want to accomplish in our lives is possible.  All we need to do is have a dream, put in a little hard work, and have faith that God will help us along the way to realizing our dreams.

For as long as I can remember I have had the desire to write.  I was a good writer but I just didn’t know what to write about.  I studied other authors.  I tried to figure out how they write and what they wrote about.  Do I write fiction?  Do I try to write a novel?  Suspense?  I had great ideas but I just didn’t know how to put them all together to make them interesting.  I kept feeling like I was at a roadblock – like my car was all gassed up but I had no where to go.

That was until one night when I was in bed.  I woke up in the middle of the night and I was  inspired to start a web site and write “The Whisper of God”.

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Sometimes, as a writer, I get stuck.  And right now I think I’m stuck…

I get ideas, I work on them, come up with a story, and then I read it and don’t feel like it’s ready to let go.  So I put the story on a shelf hoping that some day I will come back to it, get inspired, fix it, finish it, and release it – once I get the words right.

Words are great.  Just like notes in music, if you put them in the wrong order you have a mess that no one can even stand to listen to.  Put them in the right order and you can have a masterpiece. 

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