To Publish or not to Publish

I don’t call myself a writer. If I do write something it is usually on a whim and those are few and far between. I have written a few poems ,a song or two and a couple devotionals. Not much.

A year and half ago I had the great idea that I would write a children’s book complete with pictures and everything. I am still amazed and how everything came together once I had the idea. The ideas just flowed and the pictures came together nicely. I used pictures of myself, family and friends and just cartooned the pictures using a photo editing program. The end result was a booked titled “I am there…” explaining how God is always with us no matter what you do. I decided to get about twenty copies printed to hand out as gifts to family and friends as a thank you to letting me use pictures of them in the book. I thought that was the end of it until this morning.

Someone sent a copy of the book into a publishing company along with my information and this morning I got a phone call from the publishing company telling me that they wanted to publish my book and do the whole author thing.

Wow! That was a shock to my system. I told them that I wanted to pray about it first and weigh my pros and cons before I committed to a yes or no.

I still cannot believe the events. My mind is still boggled. Do I really want it published? If it gets published what does that mean for me? Will they want another book? Ohhh the thoughts that are tumbling through my mind!

For now I am just going to pray about and trust God with everything. The book was written for His glory and not for mine. He have me the idea. I will trust Him to help me make the right decision in His timing and not mine.

Shalom!