Naomi Dawn Musch

     If anyone thinks writing is a painstaking process, wait until they try getting said writing published! Talk about a slow and agonizing process. Definitely not for the faint of heart. But when it does happen, it's worth the wait. Will it fulfill us? Probably not. Nothing outside of Heaven will. But it does offer that sense of closure we hope for.

     Lately, when I've been in my car with the radio on, I've heard an advertisement running for Living Stones News, one of the midwest's premier and growing Christian newspapers. It's a pretty spiffy-sounding advertisement. In it they talk about the monthly features. "This month, read about a Pilot, a Plane, and a Purpose..." they say.

     Hey, wait a minute. I wrote that story!

     There's a weird sensation--hearing that on the radio. And lest I sound boastful, that's not what I mean. It's kind of a surreal thing, is all. And it just makes me feel like I'm connecting to other people out there, Christian or not. That maybe there's an unseen ministry, Spirit-things that could be happening which I'll never know about until I'm in Heaven.

     And that's not all.

     In March I received a copy of Terry Burn's new book The Long Road Home. There, right inside on the same page as the publishing and copyright information, is my name listed as a co-editor. Wow. Weird again.

     There's another book coming out this summer that I helped to edit, and now I'm working soley on a project with an author for his release next year. I've been made a full editor at Port Yonder Press. Talk about surreal!

     Added to these are the article which was accepted for the fall issue of Home School Enrichment magazine, another article coming out this month in Living Stones News, and most exciting on a deeply personal level, continued correspondence with the editor at Crescent Moon Press about my novel "Trevelyan".

     So, I'm counting my blessings, doing a re-cap of the past month and realizing that sometimes all that effort and waiting pays off in bundles. I think I'll always be a little weirded out seeing my stuff in print or hearing it spoken of. But it sure does reaffirm my desires.

     If you're a writer, or if you paint, quilt, sing, sculpt, weld, design, build...whatever your hand finds to do as a creative outlet...count your blessings big or small. I'll bet you'll be weirded out too.