Don't Quit Five Minutes Before Your Miracle


Since I've signed on to Blogger, I've had this "greater urge" to continue to write. I now know that it's more than just blogging, it also offers me an outlet to express, in the moment, what I am feeling. Possibly a great way to overcome writer's block. It also has rejuvenated my energies to write.

It's the intervention of the divine. My experience with the number "222" and the unltimate message of it. "Don't quit five minutes before the miracle!"

For years I've thought on being a writer. I've written several poems, completed one manuscript born out of a week of fasting between my wife and myself, and now, I'm working on another manuscript which I'd begun while in Europe, December to March, 2000-2001. Since being back in America, other than writing a few more poems I haven't really given much more to the manuscript. I have submitted poems to contests (vanity publishers), and although two have been published...it seems all they keep asking for is money, money, money. In another instance, publishing seemed an absolute (by the interaction with the editors and publishers-another contest) only to have the deadline for contact come and go, and there was no contact. I've also sent querys to publishers and a response is any where from a few months to a year. Although my first response was a refusal, I was absolutely delighted, because I'd actually received a response from a publisher! Others I have not heard back from. This for the longest time, most recently up to "222", had me very discouraged.

I remember watching an Oprah show. Her topic for the day was writers, authors. Many things stuck with me from this episode but especially one thing in particular, a concluding comment that Oprah made: "One thing you will know for sure...if you're born to be a writer, nothing in the world will stop it! It will happen!" This penetrated me so, that a tear trickled down my face.

So all discouragements aside and again back to my rejuvenated, new found self, I truly believe this!

As I reflect on my life with all of its challenges, pit-falls, stumbling blocks, mountains, valleys- with an "Ultimate hand of Grace" that always seemed to intervene; I think, how can I not tell people about this? And when I have, the response has always been, "Really. You should be writing a book!"

So I've decided that I'm not just going to keep churning butter, I'm going to believe with all of my heart, my miracle is just around the corner!

Godwin H. Barton
- posted by Free2write @ 3:05 PM