This morning I was continuing an exercise I started last week – cataloging the devotions I sent in the past in such a way that I know which ones I have used in my first two books (so I don’t repeat them in future books). This, I tell myself, is fun because it paves the way for the next and future books. The part of me likes the organizing of the past work said that. And part of me is wondering why I’m doing that instead of just writing.

Anyway, I realized I needed to carve out a time to be intentional about this. Otherwise it wasn’t going to happen. Maybe something in one of the things I read/wrote last week brought this home.

So…then I’m contemplating what scripture to share, or wise words, and I read this in one of my devotions this morning –

“Lord…give me the gift of faith to be renewed and shared with others each day.  Teach me to live this moment only, looking neither to the past with regret, nor the future with apprehension.  Let love be my aim and my life a prayer.”
–Roseann Alexander-Isham

The past: so many devotions to catalog. The future: more devotions to catalog and the work of writing another book. The love: each day I write is an open prayer, and it is a privilege to share and in some small way provide opportunity for God to enter into someone else’s day as He has mine.