Words of Hope!

Sometimes I just awaken feeling that God is calling me to rise up from my slumber. Awaken out of slumber and pray for someone. My first thoughts on awakening are most usually, "How Great Thou Art!" I love to wake up every morning with my first thoughts of God, and how much I love Him.
There are those times, as with everyone, I suppose, when I awaken and shortly after my praise and worship time, I begin to weep. I did that very thing this morning. I kept thinking of how badly I want to write a book that will please God.
I am not after fortune or fame. I just want to share Jesus through my overflowing imaginative fictional/truth stories. The strange thing is I believe that truth is like the old saying, "stranger than fiction" I have so many stories to tell, but no audience.
I've traveled all over the world, I've seen so very much in my sixty-three years...yes, true (although I WISH that part was fiction!), and I've done so many wonderful things. I've learned a lot-yet no one to instruct! I have accumulated a million recipes, and there's so many funny stories to tell about food in foreign places.
If I told you that I have ten thousand pictures, I think that would be an understatement.
I've shared a lot through newsletters and blogs, yet I have wanted that book for nearly my entire sixty-three years! Poems galore, short stories by the dozens, articles for "The Country Journal" in Sheridan, Wyoming, and I even had a "Letters to Lillian" column! I have one published poem in the book "On The Threshold of a Dream"
But you know what? I don't WANT to be on the Threshold of a Dream any longer...I want to WALK through the door!
Please pray for me as I struggle to write my books...I have a dozen swirling around in my head at any given moment! I KNOW my thoughts and ideas are from God! I know they are!
When I wept this morning, it was for once-for myself. I needed HOPE, I needed ENCOURAGEMENT. I got on my face as I do every morning about five or six a.m. and I cried. God led me to the daily devotional called "Words of Hope" today's comment was Jeremiah  29:11....can you believe it???
God said, "I know the PLANS I have for YOU, plans to prosper you, and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."
HOPE and a FUTURE! Sometimes I wonder if I have a future at Sixty Three.....I get to thinking my future is my past...I HAD my future when I was a child, a teen, a young adult, and now I'm older.....what future?
God has shown me that as long as I breathe, I have a future-even if it's just the one breath that is my last.
Until then, I'll write and get some of this swirling massive overloaded information onto paper-well, onto the screen, anyway! By the way, have I ever TOLD you that I'm an Information Junkie???
I love stuff. Not just stuff for stuff's sake, though. I love flowers, trees, birds, bricks, rocks, medical information, cross-referencing and re-crossreferencing scripture......just everything seems good to know (well all good is good to know!)
I love knowing the Bible inside out and upside down. I was  nicknamed the "walking PDR" in Nursing school and at work. If anyone needed a doctor's number or fax number: 'ask Sue, she knows all that STUFF.'
Well, after sixty some years of adding so much stuff to your brain you gotta let it out somehow!
Thank you for listening...that is unless you stopped a long time ago- if you did, shame on you! You need this STUFF, don't you? It may come in handy sometime!
I've had over twenty-five wonderful years of nursing. BUT did you know that I was 35 before I went to nursing school? It just Proves that God will give you the dream and He will make it come to pass IF you will be His instrument. When you delight in Him (Psalm 37:4-5), He will do it! I hold on to that because I have seen it happen in my own life too many times to not believe it! I also wanted to be a missionary! At fifty something, God gave me that dream as a reality! I served in both east Asia and Eastern Europe, in addition to being given the added blessings of many short trips, and thousands of new friends, brothers and sisters around the world! Dreams do come true!
It may be my August season, but it IS my season for writing what's on my heart for God!

Dear Father,
I thank YOU that You love me and that you have a wonderful plan for my life! Moses was old, Abraham and Sarah were old, men and women of the Bible didn't complain or give up because they hadn't crossed the Threshold of their Dreams at a young age. I give my remaining years to You for whatever dreams you have yet to fulfill in me. You are the one Who is the giver of life and the giver of dreams and desires. You are ALSO the One who makes them come true for us when we put our trust in you and delight to do your will.
I pray that whatever I write will bring honor and glory to Your Holy and Awesome name!

Lovingly and Eternally Yours,
Sue