Janelle felt an urge to write. In difficult situations, God became real, and she knew her experiences would encourage others. She needed to tell her story.
This fulltime mom with a fulltime job didn’t have much time in the evenings after preparing dinner, doing the wash, and helping Johnny with his homework. She had even less time because she usually needed an hour or two to connect with friends on Facebook and check her email. Then there was her favorite TV show.
She could have written on Saturday, but after Johnny’s soccer game she needed to prepare for teaching the seventh-grade girls at church. By Sunday afternoon, she needed a little rest before another long week at work. Why couldn’t weekends have three days instead of two?
“God,” she prayed, “help me find time to write.”
The next week, Janelle was laid off. She was so busy mailing copies of her updated résumé, making appointments, and doing interviews, there was no time to write. For the next year, she lived on severance pay, savings, and her unemployment check.
Finally, she got a great job and said, “Thank you, God. Now I’ll have time to write.” After further thought, she changed her prayer, saying, “God, please help me make time to write.”
Finding hours are easy. There are twenty-four in a day. Committing any of them to writing is the tough but rewarding challenge.
