Blessings...

A friend of mine told me a few months ago I was being overrun by my blessings… I smiled while acknowledging the truth of that… I have been and am blessed, over and over again… That is not to say I don’t have my trials… Because indeed I do… Sometimes I think of my early years and can relate it to an old Army commercial… There is a soldier and he makes a bold statement… “I have done more by four a.m. than most people do all day…” I can honestly say this, “I had been through more by age eighteen, than many people go through in their lives…” But we aren’t going to talk about that here and now…one day we will… What I am going to talk about relates to writing… When I started publishing my work sixteen months ago… I was as green as the rain-forest…three and a half books later I still am very lime colored…but I am learning… I joined a few literary groups…giggling... Purchased every ad that came along… Anyone selling a spot on something from forty dollars to a few hundred… I was their girl…resulted in nada…not a doggone thing… So after about six months of that… I started paying attention… Learning how to write better…listening... And then I started meeting supportive people with no agenda… I started a Myspace page… Did nothing with it…until one day…I received an invite…from Six Year Survivor…didn’t know anything about her except she was A cool sister who supported writers…didnt even know she had a review team, 'til I sent her my second book and one day it was on Amazon...what a blessing that was... Before long her support and realness…had touched me and my work… Yasmin you are my friend…and a blessing…thanks for allowing me to be a part of The APOOOBookClub review team…www.apooo.org Then one day I started a blog.... A few people trickled over, but one person consistently…Gwyneth Bolton… A sister’s whose work I loved… She would stop by my spot and send others over… Yesterday I was clicking around the dial… And there I was, my work being ‘bigged up’ by Lady Gwyneth… Thanks Sis…GwynethBolton.blogspot.com Then there are the folks who read my work…either to review or just read… Then of their own accord asked friends to carry my books in their stores… Thanks Jennifer…or decided to sell them in their stores… Thanks Lady Flava…or those who don’t know me… From a can of paint…but supports a sister anyway… I surely appreciate that… This very weekend I saw a link about African-American authors… Selling Amazon Short stories…clicked on it and lo and behold there I was my .49 cent story on full blast… I have learned that blessings are free… We get back from the universe exactly what we put out there… And patience really is a virtue… We can’t make a thing happen… We have to allow it to…thanks all… Love and Blessings acVernon Menchan Angelia