Anxiety

The panic awake

Followed by a listless day

Suggest the return of anxiety

But how and why?

Is this nervousness because

My first book will be off the press soon?

And saying I'm a writer

Will soon have something to show with it

Today

I woke up this morning

And so have another day

With You, Lord

And with the people around me

A life that is getting busy once more

And so is in need of balance

To keep me grounded

And enjoying what surrounds me

Writer Moving Forward

The manuscript is together

And ready to be sent away

To begin the journey

Toward publication

Book two reinforces 

The emergence as writer

As the process connects

The many stages that are part

Of the whole endeavour

Old Fashioned Ways

Letters

As a form of communication

Begin by spelling words

One letter at a time

A seemingly slow process

Until words become sentences

And sentences become paragraphs

With the mechanics of spelling and grammar

Transforming it into a conversation

Over miles

And over time

As the mail service cooperates

Telling Your Story

To retell Your story, Lord

With drama and interest

And yet

With accurate facts

The challenge that drives me onward

To keep on trying

How do we keep it interesting

And yet true to the details we know?

I've explored this challenge for many years

As sunday school teacher

And as the children's story teller

In the worship service

But now I need to write it down

To use simply the words on paper

Without the voice or the light in my eyes

To capture attention

But perhaps

An illustrator will come on side with me

To provide the visual impact

Family Letters

Time and space separates us

But does that have to make relationships

Unworkable?

Perhaps they can be rebuilt

Through an old fashioned method

Quickly losing popularity

That could use a revival

As I learn to put words on paper

Day by day

Ideas

Percolating ideas come up for notice

Before retreating to the background again

To be reshaped by time

Experience then colours the ideas

As it reworks them

Focusing them to a finer point

That finally hits the mark