As I was growing up, when I got into junior high, I discovered I enjoyed writing stories. This interest followed me into my adult years. For the majority of my life, what I wrote I kept private. When I eventually married, my husband and I started sending out Christmas letters each year to friends and family. I found this was a good avenue to exercise my writing muscles. As time went by I received positive feedback about our yearly letters and several friends encouraged me to keep writing.
For a number of years my writing took a back seat to child rearing and home education, but I still managed from time to time, to get away with paper and pencil to write a poem or story. Much of what I write comes out of feelings or personal experiences. I found writing was an effective way for me to process things happening in my life. Some of these I shared with close friends and again received encouragement to keep writing. I wondered if I could ever make a real go of this interest.
When I walked away from working outside the home, I felt God said to me, "You always said you wished you have more time to write. Now you do." With that directive, I started looking at writing more seriously. At the suggestion of one of my daughters-in-law, I started composing blogs which I viewed as personal reflections on life and faith. I also started writing more stories, many for my grandchildren. I even self-published a small book of my poems called Reflections.
After two years of writing blogs, I felt I wanted to have a place where these could be compiled in one place so my community of supporters could easily access them and/or catch up on ones they missed. With the help of one of my sons, this website was created. Now with a place for my blogs, I realized I could also use this vehicle as a place to share some poems and short stories.
My most recent writing project is a group of short stories based on the birth of Christ and other Christmas-related themes.
I do not know exactly where God will take all this, but my greatest desire is that He will use it as a vehicle to touch lives with His love and that He will receive glory by the things He inspires me to write.