There is a season for everything...

After recently publishing Living Single Today, my second book, and getting engaged in the same month, I am still in awe of the mysterious ways God works in our lives. It just does not make sense for an author to have a book about singleness get published and then become engaged that same month.

This morning, an interesting thought came to me. God probably wanted my story to get published after I went through it. As I am currently dealing with some personal issues, I am realizing that now is not the time to be blogging or publishing a book about them. In the meantime, I can write about them and when the time is right, share those issues.

While I went through the struggles of being single for well over a decade, I received lots of advice (much of it was unsolicited) and felt overwhelmed with all this advice. The feelings of being overwhelmed prompted me to write a book about singleness. In 2014 as I started writing this book, I was doing this to encourage myself. However, I wanted to share this encouragement with others and thought I should have this book out while I was still single. God had other plans, as He has other plans about my future books.

How I wish I could talk about some current issues I’m dealing with, but now is not the time to share with others. During this season of Lent 2018, God has told me to come to Him first with my concerns and to stop talking to numerous people about them. One of these reasons is that people just love to give advice and try to push it off as “God told me to tell you this.” Well, if God had not told me what they believed God told them to tell me, I just see this as unsolicited advice. As much as I want to have some answers about my struggles, I know that by talking to various individuals, I am going to get various answers. Then I won’t know which advice to follow or I will feel like a failure or inadequate because I feel the way I feel. I admit that I feel alone in some of my struggles and wonder if there are others who feel some of the things I feel. Maybe they do, but now is NOT the time to find that out. NOW is the time to take these concerns to God first.

Writing has always been the go-to therapy for me and after I have written about these struggles, I may share them if God leads me to do so.

As you read these words, you might be thinking and wondering, “What is she struggling with? Now that she’s no longer single and has found the right man, how could she be struggling with things?”

What I am struggling with right now is nobody’s business and in every season of life, there are struggles of some kind. That’s just part of life.