Write His Answer

Whew! What a week. More than likely you can relate.

I’ve often said that problems (it’s better to call them “challenges”) are groupies. They never seem to come one at a time.

“What’s wrong?” my husband frequently asked me over 50 years ago when I was a very young and immature bride.

“Everything,” I’d respond.

And sometimes, even today, that’s how it feels. Although my problems are nothing as severe as what the Apostle Paul faced, I can identify with what he wrote:

“In every way we’re troubled,
but we aren’t crushed by our troubles.
2 Cor. 4:8 GW

I’ve worked for over a month to finalize the faculty and program for the May 11-14 Colorado Christian Writers Conference. I am praising God for all He has done and is doing. I really enjoy putting it all together and typesetting our 16 page brochure, but . . . the formatting issues are enough to make me want to pull my hair out.

Before you ask, no it’s not something I can delegate. I write the copy to fit. The problem that is hard to explain and even harder to fix is what the printer requires and how those requirements change every year.

I need to design the brochure in an 8.5 x 11 format. But then I need to split the pages into a 5.5 x 8.5 format. That means splitting the two-page workshop grid into two separate pages that the printer will then put back together. I know. It doesn’t make any sense. And that is just the beginning of the “challenges” that I’ve tried to resolve the past two days.

Of course, the deadline (and I used to think deadlines were exciting) has come and passed.

But the Apostle Paul also said,

“We’re frustrated, but we don’t give up.”
2 cor. 4:8 GW

I’ve searched the Bible. Nowhere does it say that following Jesus will be easy. Just the opposite. We are to expect opposition. We need to put on the spiritual armor He provides and toughen up.

I am convinced that dark days are ahead for our nation and world, but I’m clinging to His promise:

Overwhelming victory is ours through Christ
who loved us enough to die for us.”
Rom. 8:37 TLB

I’m determined, in His strength, to press on and to

“Carry the light-giving Message into the night.”
Phil. 2:15 MSG

What about you?
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If we have your USPS address, you’ll receive the brochure in the mail mid-February. But PTL it is available online now at http://colorado.writehisanswer.com.

Online registration opens Monday, February 1. But you can be the first to register by printing and mailing the form in the brochure. I will send a free copy of Write His Answer – A Bible Study for Christian Writers to everyone whose registration is postmarked today, January 30.

Plans are underway for the August 3-6 Greater Philly Christian Writers Conference.