Exercise in Writing: "B is for Bible"

Back in the "nineteen hundreds", even as I was in grade school, writing was something that I wanted to do.  I wrote programs for my mother's mission society at church, I wrote an Easter Message which I presented and I really loved going to the library to research books for writing projects at school.

In my twenties and early thirties I enrolled in English and Writing classes at Penn State University but as a "non-degree" student because I didn't have the time for full time studies.  But I took the classes because it was my feeling that someone had to "train" me to write.  Concentrating on that art, I did have an article published in August 1989.  Therefore, I am a professional writer, as I received $50 for that article.

The publication was, State College the Magazine and the title of my article was, "Building a Family: Adoption as an Option".  In my mind, my writing career was started but I held the magazine in my hands for the first time, two weeks before my family and my life would be changed forever.

My writing career had to be put on hold when my husband was hit by a car and suffered severe brain damage on August 23rd, 1989.  For the next eleven years I would raise my two adopted daughters as a single mother while care giving to my disabled husband, now unable to parent with me.

Now, at sixty-five years old, looking in the "rear-view" mirror, I see that writing is my gift from God and that during all the years hence that first article, I was working on my "research" for topics that He wants me to write about.

Recently I was gifted by the book, "A to Z Devotions for Writers".  The author, Pamela D. Williams, is a new friend and the wife of a pastor.  This book is exactly what I needed to encourage my writing, again.

Here is my exercise for B is for Bible: Writing from God's Word.  (I hope you enjoy and make comments below.)  

Writing Application:  Psalm 102:18 - "Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord."
How I feel it applies to writing as a ministry.

All through the ages there have been stories passed from generation to generation.  Some even took the time to chisel the stories into stone walls.  Because there were no written words, they told the stories in pictures.

The above verse tells us that Praising the Lord is so important that even people "not yet created" must hear the truth about who the Lord is so they may praise his name.

My mind is starting to slip a bit in the memory department.  There are so many things that I want to tell my Grandchildren and I'm sure that I will not live long enough to tell them all that I want.

Having the writings to refer to following death, it is like having your loved one right here, with you.

Even though the mind is slipping, I still remember my grandmother singing praises to Jesus and going to church every Sunday with her white haired sisters. Sitting a couple rows behind her in church, the picture of their three heads bobbing ever so slightly, remains a vivid part of my memories.  I remember the calendar towels she gave us each Christmas, too.  I don't have them any more but there must have been at least ten years worth.

If my ministry is to teach my children and my children's children and so forth, about Christ our savior... And I know that it is my ministry to do this.  Then writing my stories of Faith and Experience is vital to helping move my children's children and many future generations, firmly into the arms of our Lord and Savior.

If only they will read and accept and know that I speak the truth.  If you can't believe your Grandmother, who can you believe?

The Real Cathy