This past Saturday I went to a literary festival in Dahlonega. My good friend Beth Ann told me about it.  I had no idea what a literary festival was.  I hadn’t ever been to one.  I didn’t know what to expect…I guess I was thinking it would be a bunch of people that liked books, which I do, buying books.  But it turned out to be much more than that.  It was inspiring.  I heard some internationally known authors read from their work.  They had panels of authors telling how they got published, their steps when writing, how to find a literary agent and publisher…all kinds of helpful things.  I didn’t stay for the whole thing, but I did get some very useful information.  I think it was a God thing that it just so happened that I would go to this festival a week or so after I finished the first chapter of my book.  I am going to be published…someday.  But now I know the steps it takes to get there.

It is so great when God keeps on prompting you to move forward with the dreams he gives you.  First he gives you a dream.  Then he gives you the gift to make that dream a reality.  Then you get the idea that because you are moving forward in it that it is up to you to make it happen.  Then he reminds you it was his to begin with and he gives you the exact steps you need to make it come to pass.  Then he pushes and pushes you to keep moving towards that goal. If we could just learn not to give up on his plan.  We well ourselves short so many times…to live fully…that means pursuing our dreams.