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Our fearless leader offered up an interesting challenge for this week.

CHALLENGE: Someone comes to you with a certified letter that says one year from today you will inherit $2 Million and the freedom to launch into a full time writing career. What steps would you take to form your plan to begin working as a full time writer one year from today?

When I first saw this, I got really excited. I don’t necessarily consider myself a writer, but I love writing. I love the process of sitting down and allowing inspiration to take me where it might. On the other hand, there have been times in my life where I felt like I would write at least one book in my lifetime. Maybe about my struggles to overcome pornography years ago. Or about what happens when God breaks a man down and rebuilds him. Maybe I might write a book of poetry, or take the short story that I wrote during NaNoWriMo and try to refine it and get it published. I could write up the marriage curriculum that God is building within my wife and I as a ministry opportunity. I could write books to students and encourage them to be who they are. I have never really seriously looked at writing as a career, because I have bills and 4 kids, and a wife. But if I received a letter in the mail to that end, I might become a more intentional writer. I might make more time for it, carving out time to build up my substance and topics. I would expose myself to more writers, and put more stuff online to try and build a following, or simply network.

A letter like that would open new avenues and provide new hope. I would like to think that I wouldn’t waste it. Of course, I would continue teaching and ministry, because I love those things, but I also think that I could be free to love writing as well, knowing that everything else is taken care of.

And I know that nothing I have said above is a reason not to take it seriously now. I just have this fear that it might not work for me. And that holds me in check.

Maybe it shouldn’t anymore. Maybe I should just live my dreams out loud.

Maybe.

Hmm….