Writing for God

If you asked me twenty years ago, "what do you want to do with you life?" If I was honest, I would have told you, "make a lot of money so I won't have to work when I'm forty." Well, guess what? I am now in my forties and I'm still working. What I would have never guessed is I would be a writer. No way, no how. I hated writing. My entire life was centered on making money for the sake of making money. And I wanted to make a lot of money. I looked for anything that would make me a ton of money. I bought a cleaning company, I went to school for business, I even started my own company making hot sauce. I did pretty well at making hot sauce. But it wasn't God's plan, none of them were. It wasn't until after I closed the hot sauce company that I began writing for the enjoyment of it. At the time I wasn't a Christian.

To be honest I never understood what it meant to be a Christian and a follower of Jesus. My parents never took me to Church. In high school my goal was to get through it with as little work as possible. Then I would start my own company and put in as little effort, make millions of dollars and hire people to run my company. I would drive a 250,000 dollar Ferrari. It was all planned out for after high school. In high school writing was painful. Like the rest of school I just wanted to finish any writing projects as quickly as possible, with as little effert as possible.

I have been a writer longer than I have been a Christian, but I beleive it was God that put me on this path to becoming a writer. Over the years my writing has evolved. I started out writing for the secular market, but thanks to God, who, over time have be guiding me toward becoming an indie Christian author. He has inspired me to write and brought people into my life. There was no way I couldn't be anything but a Christian writer, writing for God's sake.