Just Some Good Thoughts…

Well folks, I did it. I officially published my first book appropriately entitled, “Just Some Good Thoughts” (Nothing more, nothing less…) The book is a compilation of blogs I have written over the years. I arranged the book topically, so it’s not necessarily a read straight though book, but rather a reference guide designed to meet the needs of people with God’s great love and words of truth. It’s not a religious book by any means as religion typically serves to take people away from God and not to Him by introducing and promoting endless focus on self with all of its associated shortcomings and faults. Instead it is a guidebook offering a new way to perceive God more closely aligned with whom He says He is according to His Word. In Just Some Good Thoughts I endeavored to write things based upon the blessings and positivity of life as opposed to endless rants about what isn’t right and the like. In light of this bucket list accomplishment for myself, I thought it might be interesting to take you through the processes and inspirations that accompany my writing.

Interestingly, on some occasions, I shared something I wrote on people’s Facebook pages only to be met with some defensiveness, horror and alarm that I was associating that person with something in the blog. However, this could not be further from the truth. My motive in writing is never to condemn people or imply that something is inherently wrong with them. Instead my motivation has always been love, love for God and love for other people. As long as I can remember I have wanted to help people and take a part in relieving their suffering. I’ve lived with myself long enough to know the kind of things that go through a person’s mind and also the futility we all face at times in not having answers to life’s most important questions. If I ever shared a blog with you my only aim was to bless you and maybe help you. It’s crazy for any of us to think we don’t need help at times. Or worse, to think we know when we don’t know. Life is spiritual as I’ve said often and it has been my experience that the spiritual realm is the one category of life where people are the most misinformed, confused or simply ignorant of life’s greatest realities. I wrote Just Some Good Thoughts to help you know the score.

There is an unusual aspect of writing that perhaps all writers can relate to in some capacity. When I write a blog I never quite know where it is going until after I start writing. It reminds of the sculptor who can already see the image in the block of marble. I begin with an idea of where I want to go or sometimes no idea at all and start writing. When I’m writing my mind is alive with ideas and concepts. A five-minute-read blog requires about an hour and a half to complete. I never do a rewrite or any real editing other than a grammatical read through for errors. As I’m writing, the sentences seem to have a flow to them meaning adding more when the end comes too abruptly, shortening and simplifying or else adding in more detail and color. I cannot explain how I sense this but I know it is there. The words and the sentences demand it. If I’m challenged in some area chances are I’m going to write about it, but not everything I write is my personal challenge. At times I am deeply inspired and at other times all I know is that I want to write something. For the writer there is a whole expanse of life from which to choose and there is virtually no limit to it. The best part of my writing is of course God and His involvement with me. By involvement I do not mean an awareness only of His presence per se, but rather His involvement in His communication with me. He inspires the words that I say. In every blog I write His hand is in there somewhere because it is typically the best sentence in the blog! For this I say thanks and take credit (smile). I think that every artist has somewhat of the Great Creator’s artistry and beauty. That’s not to say that everything I write is somehow perfect or not even maybe a bit wrong on some point, but instead it is the work of the imperfect communing with the Perfect. I wrote Just Some Good Thoughts because I wanted to be a spokesperson for Him from which all of life proceeds.

I knew when I was a young child that I wanted to be a writer. It was always something that felt easy for me. In English class I couldn’t tell you the difference between a subordinate clause versus a dependent clause but I could always feel it. I had a great love for words and how you could arrange them to communicate more perfectly. When I was in college I once wrote a term paper that we were supposedly working on for the whole semester, the night before the class and received an “A-.” The instructor said she loved how organized my thoughts were. Yet I published my first book some 40 years later. I think Emerson said it best when he noted that a man may not yet be sufficiently organized to bring forth, but when he is he will. Words are one of the greatest mediums for expression as evidenced by the reality that God gave us His Word. Spiritual truths are not always received until at last you are ready to receive them. Those words that cause your heart to sparkle for an instant are the words you need nourishment from and point you in a divine direction. God in His perfection gave us words, perfect words that communicate to our hearts first before reaching our minds. I wrote Just Some Good Thoughts to give you words that will edify your soul and rescue you from the opposition.

It is my sincere hope that by reading Just Some Good Thoughts you will find answers from which the absence of them has long since plagued your soul. There is a beautiful rhyme and reason to life which can be understood and lived. There are solutions to life’s most difficult challenges and help from God to overcome them. Woe to the man or woman that has been so long engulfed in error that they have closed their minds to truth. The words I wrote in the book are words given with none other motivation than to help you and to love you. I did my best to say what God wanted me to say in His infinite goodness and desire to relieve the suffering of His precious people. I wrote with the love and kindness from which God has graciously given me. I hope you will delight in the same way I delight every time God reveals something wonderful to me. You are not alone on this journey called life and you are not without help. I wrote Just Some Good Thoughts because I love God and He loves me. I wrote Just Some Good Thoughts to offer you spiritual solutions to spiritual problems. I wrote Just Some Good Thoughts because there’s so much more to this thing called life than you may have ever imagined.

Just Some Good Thoughts coming soon to Amazon!

I love you.