As I contemplate finishing a book about my spiritual journey, I begin to worry. The text is done. It’s being read by my editor and friend, whose red pencil bleeds all over my manuscripts. And I’m getting nervous.
When you write a book like this, there are no secrets left.
And I’m not sure I want people who know me and my family to know all my secrets. On top of that, I don’t want people to think of me as a ‘hero in faith’ or, on the other hand some whining person telling how difficult the journey was. Yet my journey is one of those everyman or woman stories. It’s just that we don’t talk about it very much.
Lots of people have dreams that are unfulfilled. Lots of people have bouts of depression to overcome. Lots of people are physically different from their peers at the time in life when kids are cruel to each other. Lots of people have image problems.
But not everyone has been rescued by music. Not everyone gets to live a life of service. Not everyone is surprised by God’s unexpected work in and through their life.
Maybe I do have a unique expression of the everyman or woman story of dreams lost and found.
I’m still nervous, though. I guess I’ll wait and see what the woman with the red pen says.
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Jo Bower (Randall)
I play piano, write, publish, and struggle with being as good as possible at things I do. My husband has recently went from being a full-time pastor to a full-time hospice chaplain. (Compassionate Care Hospice of Alexandria) Life changed drastically, and I am still in the I can’t believe I really have time for myself stage. I have read everything I can get my hands on and am taking a break from all that has stressed me. God is good and faithful. +
We attend the First United Church of Alexandria and are slowly getting involved with its opportunities for service. Our Sunday School Class is wonderful..
Life has changed again, and we have come full circle, returning to Oklahoma City, Ok where we began our life together. We have a good place to live, family is close, and we are walking new paths physically and spiritually.
Again, God remains faithful and has led us to a church that accepted us and has extended opportunities for us to serve.
My life-long dream is to minister to people I will never meet. And my final goal in life is to be used up. When all is said and done, and I am no longer ‘in charge’ or able to appear in public, I will have given everything I have to give, and be content to let the world come to me.
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