Gee, it’s good to be back here. This blog has become like a very dear friend to me. In fact, I have given my friend a name, “TORI” (That One Reading It – YOU!!).

I wrote this entry as an email to another friend, then submitted to a Flickr discussion group yesterday.

G’day!!

And it sure has been!

It was one of those dreamy sort of days… felt like I was somewhere else. Even long delays in town didn’t bother me. I’d driven into town, and was stopped at the railway gates for AGES, waiting for a L-O-N-G freight train to go through… and then after it had gone the gates opened… a few cars got through and they closed again, and another L-O-N-G-E-R freight train went the other way. Yet I was blissfully enjoy the worship songs playing in the car. I was in another world. I enjoyed the little break. Normally I would have been rather agitated at the long delay.

It was all because of the discovery I made about writing. I was blown me away.

In the book where she said about writing being a journey, and letting it happen and enjoying the ride… that has blown all my ideas out of the water. To take a journey and not know where you are going?… unimaginable to me!!

Normally on a trip, I have to know the destination and the shortest route. And I have to get there as quickly as possible…. can’t waste time you know!!

I’m a planner, a goal setter! I have to know the end from the beginning. So this idea is very new for me. It reminds me of how God called Abraham. God told him to pack up and go. He would show him where to, and tell him when he’d got there.

“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.” (Heb 11:8)

So, for me, writing is the same. By faith I’ll obey and go, and enjoy the journey, even though I don’t know where I’m going. Hey, what an adventure.

It also reminds me of how our mate, Bible Story Guy, Paul, has written, especially his cancer story. He wrote while he was going through it, not knowing what the end would be. He probably imagined that he wouldn’t have been around very long, and that that might have been his final legacy… his finale… the closing curtain!

But how wonderful it is that he wrote it down, so that others could read and understand what it was like to go through something like that. It sure has been a journey for him…. and now others to can appreciate it.

And for me, writing has become something I want to do, and just a “have to”. And God has given me that “want to”. Whether I write in blogs, or write emails or on Flickr…. whether it be a book or an article… it doesn’t really matter. All I know is…. JUST WRITE.

And another amazing thing is how the Internet has opened up so many possibilities for writers. Once to write and include a photograph would have cost heaps to get published. And even writing would have been an effort to get published. You’d submit your work to a publisher and wait for yonks to see if it was accepted, and then you’d have to make some adjustments and muck around until the final publication.

But NOW, you can write, with all its warts and all, and publish it straight away on the Internet. And people can be reading it within minutes. Man, that is a blowout!! Of course you end up getting some pretty raw stuff on there, but it certainly has changed the face of writing.

I am so thankful to God that this is all possible. Ten years ago, when I believe the Lord told me to write, I wouldn’t have imagined it.

It is sure an amazing journey. Thanks for being part of it!!!!