WRITING

The WRITING -- has been coming for a very long time.

LONG time ago, teachers in school, even elementary, said I had a knack for words. The Pastor I had through high school, Pastor John Nilson (very important man in my life, I have considered him to be my "spiritual father", gone now since 1981 (to the Lord) and left Worcester a couple years prior to that--- said he thought I "could be good with people" and was "quite a writer in the making"--- words I have never forgotten...... not too many others said such encouraging things to me.

I wrote good reports, for college, and for work, once I had jobs that required me to do so. People at NSES love my reports, whether about Mediations in facilities, staff meetings, whatever. Especially my former supervisor, there, Rhonda Gauthier (former teacher then principal of the middle school in Beverly, retired, then was bored to tears, and now, with her husband extremely ill with chronic cardiac disease.... went back to work, and having been on our Board, took a brand new position as Director of Communication....) loves my writing and has encouraged me, maybe even to learn to write grants (obviously for NSES but I'm thinking.... Haven)

Have you ever heard of John Polce? He's from Rhode Island (so knew Rev Ken) and is known for his music ministry all over... kind of a Michael Card type of balladeer. One time he was Wesley to do ministry and said he heard from the Lord that someone there, in the congregation, would be writing a book, an important book, someday, called LOVE NEVER FAILS. No one replied to him at the time, but I FELT it.... and have never forgotten.

I wrote at the Haven, for assignments, then press releases and PR type material to go to churches, introductions to funders, our brochure..... "meat & potatoes". And Jude liked my writing so much that, she herself having heard from the Lord that she was to write a book, that interwove her personal story with the story of the Haven, asked me to be the collaborator on that, what is frequently known as a "ghost writer". We had begun, with interviews and stream-of-consciousness..... when I had to leave. She has told me she still needs to do it, but that it's hard for her. She does better if someone listens and writes. AND she has some kind of electrical problem when she works on computers, her hands are like full of electricity and screws them up. So maybe something to do with this project is still pending.

All this may sound like bragging, not sure, but it doesn't feel like it right now. It is feeling like I am simply accepting something that I have, that the Lord made me with--- like gray eyes and bad vision--- and also accepting that the time may have come to do something with it.

Hence, MEANDERINGS. And the beginning---- is NOW.