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A Praise to Share
HealthFitNow
Posts: 1,205 Member
My dear friends,
Since being disabled, I have wondered how I could serve God. At first I was in so much pain and drugged until I was loopy, enough that I was not productive.
I weaned myself off of the meds--mostly--deciding that pain was better than being a vegetable.
I don't walk well and can't sit up for long periods of time. I'm slowly walking myself back to health. with the aid of a walker and the good Lord.
I gained weight from being put on steroids for nine months and unable to move for the most part without extreme agony.
I used to run 3 miles daily and do my chin ups, sit ups and push ups at a top level for my age (with the Navy and Marine Corps)
An injury at the Marine Corps base, while I was on reserve time, set me on the spiral down. When I returned home to my church, and was working, an accident put me into major pain--five surgeries later, and I was down. Going from active to inactive, and put on steroids, I gain 100 lbs. It made my recovery worse.
I can't work a regular job. I haven't been able to be reliable for much of anything. I found this Bible study has helped me feel God at work in me and I praise his name. All good things come from him.
I hoped to find that God had another plan for my service to him.
A few years ago I joined a writer's group and began to study how to write fiction stories. I am working on several projects. I have not felt that my work has been good enough to submit to a publisher.
This past week, I was reading a forum where there was a call for speculative fiction stories about geeks and Comic Cons. I had no idea what to write, but I prayed and sat down. Plotted and wrote. I submitted the story three days later and I heard yesterday that my story has been ACCEPTED!
This will be my first time published as a fiction writer. Very exciting for me. It will be in an anthology that will come out in about six months or so.
This is a huge milestone for me. Having a published work on one's CV makes a difference when seeking a deal with many publishing houses.
I give God the praise and glory for helping me write this story.
In short I am tickled pink and wanted to share with you the successes that God blesses us with. With a career in writing, it doesn't matter that I can't get out and about or do the things that I miss.
I commit my writing to God and his glory.
Blessings,
ChapLynne
Since being disabled, I have wondered how I could serve God. At first I was in so much pain and drugged until I was loopy, enough that I was not productive.
I weaned myself off of the meds--mostly--deciding that pain was better than being a vegetable.
I don't walk well and can't sit up for long periods of time. I'm slowly walking myself back to health. with the aid of a walker and the good Lord.
I gained weight from being put on steroids for nine months and unable to move for the most part without extreme agony.
I used to run 3 miles daily and do my chin ups, sit ups and push ups at a top level for my age (with the Navy and Marine Corps)
An injury at the Marine Corps base, while I was on reserve time, set me on the spiral down. When I returned home to my church, and was working, an accident put me into major pain--five surgeries later, and I was down. Going from active to inactive, and put on steroids, I gain 100 lbs. It made my recovery worse.
I can't work a regular job. I haven't been able to be reliable for much of anything. I found this Bible study has helped me feel God at work in me and I praise his name. All good things come from him.
I hoped to find that God had another plan for my service to him.
A few years ago I joined a writer's group and began to study how to write fiction stories. I am working on several projects. I have not felt that my work has been good enough to submit to a publisher.
This past week, I was reading a forum where there was a call for speculative fiction stories about geeks and Comic Cons. I had no idea what to write, but I prayed and sat down. Plotted and wrote. I submitted the story three days later and I heard yesterday that my story has been ACCEPTED!
This will be my first time published as a fiction writer. Very exciting for me. It will be in an anthology that will come out in about six months or so.
This is a huge milestone for me. Having a published work on one's CV makes a difference when seeking a deal with many publishing houses.
I give God the praise and glory for helping me write this story.
In short I am tickled pink and wanted to share with you the successes that God blesses us with. With a career in writing, it doesn't matter that I can't get out and about or do the things that I miss.
I commit my writing to God and his glory.
Blessings,
ChapLynne
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This study has truly blessed me. I don't know what God said to you, but I'd like to think that this is a great service to Him.0
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WHEN GOD CLOSES ONE DOOR HE CAN OPEN ANOTHER TO A HALLWAY OF DOORS! IT LOOKS LIKE ONE OF YOUR DOORS JUST OPENED. I WISH YOU THE BEST AND PRAY THAT OUR GOOD LORD CONTINUES TO BLESS YOU, XXX GG0
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Thank you my sisters in Christ,
Your encouragement is warming to my heart.
Blessings on you!
ChapLynne0 -
This is an awesome praise for God's glory! I am so happy for you. I adore writing, but have never ventured out there to have anything published. I pray for your continued success in your writing endeavors! May God bless you with success!0
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