The Locust Project

Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

Lately the thought of writing a book has been on mind. So I’ve prayed about it, using the excuse that I could never finish the project while going to school to finish my degree. I’ve even been up in the air about what to write about also. I don’t intend on writing a book that dishes all the dirt and nothing positive comes from it. I’m not sure a book about all the dirt and filth I’ve been through would ever sell. The only way I would write about anything tragic is if it could help someone keep from making the same mistakes I’ve made. I love my family way too much to humiliate anyone in order to sell a book. Hopefully one day the Lord will bless me with the ability and words to talk about much of the tragedy I’ve seen and been through.

My idea for a book will actually take more time than just writing it b/c I’m making it a project that I complete with my mother. It is actually quite fun and it had to come from God b/c I’m not this creative. I will write the book with mom’s input and help. We missed out on 29 years of being in each other’s life daily and now we live together. So the project is about us gaining all those years back in a few months to a couple of years. The words of an evangelist ring in my ears, “Get back the years the locust ate.” In the following months my mother and me will be doing projects that require us to tell each other about our present and past life. Both of us come up with questions for the other to answer. I’m calling it the Locust Project, so to speak. And when we are finished with the project end of it, I’m going to write a book based on our experience through the project questions and to candidly describe what we were going through the past 29 years of our relationship.

Mom likes the idea and is even complimenting my creativity. I should talk to someone about patenting this idea and making it something mothers and daughters around the world can participate in. Mom is even saying we need to go on the Dr. Phil show. :0) I’m just smiling through all the ideas and possibilities. God will bless this project when I give Him all the praise and glory for it. I do believe it is my way of showing my mother that I’ve always loved her and love her still. I want to give her the world b/c she choose to give me life in a time of her life that making the choice to end my life could have been an option. I know I’m a miracle of God b/c my mother told me about how amazing it was to be my mother. God will always give back to you what you’ve lost if only you will search His heart to get it back.

I’m setting myself on a goal date. I am going to take 2 years to do this project. And if I write it as I go then it shouldn’t take me too long to put it together for a publisher. I should give the first copy of the book to my mother for Christmas 2011. Wow, I said it and put myself on a date for the goal! Pray for me as we have a blast doing something together and that I’ll have the patience needed to get this thing published! I may put up a website for the Locust Project and get ideas from mothers & daughters around the world.