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I am a writer
There, I said it.
Do I feel like one?
No.
But that doesn’t mean I’m not one.
Over the past 4 years, I have written 560 posts.
I write, therefore I am a writer.
At this point, I haven’t earned money doing it like I had hoped.
I can aways look at others and say
“I wish I wrote like she does.”
I can aways look at others and say “I wish I wrote like she does.” but that doesn’t change the fact. I am a writer. Share on XBut that doesn’t change the fact.
I am a writer.
I write.
I have a voice.
It is unique.
It brings with it my years of experience.
In life, marriage, raising a family. . .
It brings with it the perspective of a woman born in the 40’s
Who grew up in the 50’s
Graduated from high school and college in the 60’s.
Who was horrified at the death of a president (Kennedy) during her first year of college.
And more shocked at the death of both Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy
During the spring of her last year of Nursing. (stop)
She married late in the 60’s and birthed her children in the 70’s,
Living in Jamaica most of that decade.
That is my perspective.
I have something to say.
I’m not concise. I try.
But I can’t seem to do it.
I never wanted to write when I was young.
It wasn’t my dream.
But I enjoy it now.
It helps me put my thoughts and beliefs in order. . .
For the next generation.
I’m writing for Five Minute Friday and Fellowship Friday #16 today.
I know you from your Jamaica years and it is a gift to be connected to you again in this way. I love your committed faith, your openness, your honesty. It truly blesses me.
As someone who is between my parents’ generation and my own, who served with them in Jamaica, and who God used there and in all the intervening years, your internet friendship and writing is a sweet, unlooked for gift to me.
So grateful that you are a writer so that you can be present in my life! ~Kay
i have loved getting reacquainted with you kay:) what a gift:) wish i could drop in on you and have a hot chai with you! i know we would have lots to talk about for sure! i forgot to mention all the writing i had to do each week from high school to home in order to get my supper. was that rule still there when you were at BL?
those letter i wrote home were telling all the bright side of life and none of the gloom. in some ways i guess they were fiction but probably balanced out the negativity of some of the other letters my parents received. didn’t help me much. but i didn’t think about how it helped develop some of my writing skills…not necessarily non-fiction.
Martha, I found you through the featured post on Fellowship Fridays. I love this post. I gave up my dream of being a writer back in college–when my professors ripped my writing to shreds. Then God gave me back those dreams over 30 years later. It was a struggle to overcome the lies our enemy wanted me to believe about who I was. I am a writer. I am a child of God. I use that now to bring Him glory. Thanks for sharing your lovely piece. You are a writer. Ardis
thanks ardis:) my writing courses in college had that effect on me too! when i discovered blogs a few years ago, my passion took over. my passion to communicate with women re the love and grace of Christ…from my perspective. it is one that can be very encouraging to younger women. as older women, we need to find ways to reach them. they need our encouragement!
I found you through the CMB linkup.. So glad I did! The voice of a woman who has seen and experienced the life you have lived is such a blessing to younger women. I’m looking forward to reading more of your archived articles and your future ones.
hi amanda,
i enjoyed reading your blog. i’ll welcome your visits…and comments. thanks.
Coming to you from FMF… and happy to read your blog today! I would encourage you to, if you haven’t done so yet, to read Emily Freeman’s “A Million Little Ways”. Absolutely transforming!
i will lori. thanks for dropping by:)
Martha – Thank you so much for sharing this! What an encouragement you are to us younger girls. Sometimes, I think I have to have everything for the rest of my life figured out TODAY, as though if I don’t figure this writing thing out before I’m 30, it will never happen. But your post reminded me that God molds us and shapes us over an entire lifetime, not in just one season. Thanks again for this beautiful post. It meant a lot to me this morning.
thanks amy. my goal is to be encouraging. glad it worked:) i think it helps to think of our lives as needing to marinade. yes, graciously GOD uses us even when we are young in ministry. But the combo of time+pain+suffering+reality makes a marinade that GOD uses to bring flavor that ministers love and grace and truth to our family, friends, neighbors and others around us.
i’m glad the post was helpful. blessings today:)
Some of us are made to be authors some are not. Each of us have a story and thanks to blogs many more get to read them.
hi sara. glad you stopped by. so true. each of our stories is unique. blogs help us share them with others. blessings:)
Hello Martha! I really understand that identity thing – how hard it is to own the title ‘writer’. But like any other sort of artist, what’s created is the evidence. And every artist/creator is unique, and produces something with their own fingerprints on it. Everything you list here is like the lines on your own unique hands… where you lived, what happened, what you know. I’m so grateful you’ve shared it – yourself – with us today. xRuth
thanks for stopping by ruth. and for your kind words. blessings:)
Hey! I’m here from the Five Minute Friday community. And yes, you ARE a writer. 🙂 It’s in you and it’s who you are. Your life story sounds absolutely fascinating and the stories that you carry must be told.
thanks for your visit terryn. now i know your real name:) i didn’t think jadepsu was your real name:) but one never knows! i enjoyed visiting your blog. you had all kinds of interesting goodies there!
blessings! i think the 5th time turned out to be a charm for sure!