Summer fun ... Writing! =)

I finally feel like I'm living summer the way I've wanted to. I still have one more week of early morning summer classes, but then I'm done until the end of August. Because these past 4 weeks my classes were in the morning, I've been able to relax and spend my afternoons the way I wanted to, not feeling as though I had wasted a whole day in class. Most often I would come home and nap for a few hours, but hey, I was able to do it. The freedom that comes with summer is something that we often lose once we graduate from high school. I am so blessed to be able to regain it, even just for this short while.

I've been working on a story ever since January. I decided as sort of an unspoken resolution that I wanted to finish a story this year. I always start these little paragraphs or few pages of interesting content, but never see them through to completion. Well, already, as it is only July (which is hard to believe !!) I am well on my way to actually achieving my goal. That's the other thing I've been spending my summer afternoons doing -- writing. Or perhaps typing is a better term. I've filled an entire journal with my fairytale (one of those little spiral hard back ones you can get at Barnes & Noble on clearance with really cool pictures or designs on the covers) and I'm already several pages into a new one, but I was starting to get a little worried that it was my only copy of my story. If anything would happen -- like if I lost the journal, spilled water on it, lent it to someone or left it somewhere -- I think I would be heartbroken and greatly discouraged.

So I started typing it up. Now that I'm well toward the end of the adventure, I realized there are things in the beginning that I need to change/revise, and at first that is what really kept me from typing up my story. I figured I would want to edit as I typed -- which I am doing to an extent -- but it turns out that I've managed to just type what's written. I want to get it all down, then I'll worry about fixing things.

I am really excited about this story. There is so much out there that is just awful for young people (particularly girls) to be filling their minds with. Now, although my story doesn't necessarily scream about Jesus Christ and his saving grace, it definitely has a more positive image in it. If it closes the way I am hoping that it will (sometimes stories have a mind of their own and I can't really do anything about it) the book will be full of lessons to learn and encouragement for girls -- rather than a standard to which they are always destined to fall short.

I don't really know where this is going to go, but I've committed it to God -- wherever he wants to take it he will. If it just simply remains a hilarious tale about me and my best friend that is shared between the two of us -- I'm okay with that. I'm writing because I love it, and I'm writing because for some reason, God gave me the ability. I don't know what's coming tomorrow -- heck! I don't even know how my own story is going to end! -- but I do know that whatever comes my way, God is guiding me and will see me through!

To God be the glory! Always! =)