If you are visiting here because you saw me on Tsh’s site SimpleMom.net, thanks for clicking over to find out more. More about me. More about the book I just had published.
The truth is I didn’t set out to write a book. And I certainly didn’t set out to write a book all about me. But I work for the life-changing organization called MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International. MOPS gave me the chance to write this year’s theme book and here it is. I know that makes me sound so cool, calm and collected about the whole thing. But the truth is I cried a lot in the writing process. Prayed a lot for the readers who read my words. And then cried some more. Sent it to the publisher and trusted God to take it from there.
But then I found writing a book isn’t just about writing a book. There is the get-the-word-out about the book part of it. Where you ask people you know if they will endorse it, promote it, tweet it, whatever it. And I was in the throes of that when I got a string of emails from Emily Freeman (who writes with such clarity and eloquence and honesty and wit) and Tsh (Tsh! Only months earlier I sat on the floor, yes sat because there were no more seats, in her workshop at the Allume blogging conference, about of all things building your “platform”) about being featured on SimpleMom.
And I screamed.
And then yes I cried. I jumped up and down. Because not only did I admire Tsh, and was so flattered she reached out to me, I hadn’t approached her. Somewhere along her lines of asking around about books to feature, someone recommended the words that I had cried over and prayed over. And that meant something. People were resonating with my story and telling others it was worth reading.
Talk about on the floor humbled. (Remember this is from someone who never set out to write a book.)
It is a gift to be featured on Tsh’s site today. And it is a reminder that my prayers were perhaps for you.
God bless you my friend. I am praying for you today.
You are the Artist’s Daughter.