WHA #1

A Call to Write

I’ve been writing thirty plus years.

When did I first get the call?

Or was it just a niggling desire.

Did it start with my love for reading?

Dad sitting me on his knee

reading in his monotone voice

about the woodpecker and the telephone pole?

Was it when Mom would allow me

to put Two Little Golden books

in the grocery cart each week?

Was it in fifth grade when I picked up paper

and pencil to write my first novel,

which sounded a lot like Trixie Belden.

Was it when I took my first writer’s course?

Attended my first writer’s conference?

Was it the first time I got an acceptance

for a fiction story?

When I published my first devotion?

When I got a regular monthly assignment

with a national ministry?

When I made the decision to self publish?

All that I know is I desire to worship

and serve Him in everything I do.

Writing is one of them.

I long for others to know His love

and I aim to explore that love

through poetry, devotions,

articles, fiction, and children’s writing.

So was it a call to write

 or was it just God accepting and using

what I offer to Him

with an outstretched hand?