Everything has it’s own time…that is awful hard to accept but doesn’t make it any less true…I knew this a long time ago…I married a man who was in the Army and large part of that meant travelling, so I knew that regardless of the type of career I had, that when it was time to move, it was time…I saw many women who refused, they were going to stay put, the career was most important…to that I said, to each her own…I had actively decided that if I were going to be married, I was going to be with the person I was married to, wherever that took us…didn’t feel like a compromise to me…seemed like what I had said ‘I do for…
However, I didn’t allow that to stop me from charting my own course, I had several careers, some fun and frivolous, others serious and upwardly mobile and a couple somewhere in between…I simply decided that wherever I went I would make it work for me, get more education, reinvent myself, update my skills whatever it took…but my primary goal was to keep my family intact…
When my man retired almost eleven years ago, I was hired as a legal assistant of sorts, was a ‘good’ stable job that grew into a GREAT job with major pay increases…largely because of all that honing my skills over the years and being able to do whatever I needed to do to move up…and it also meant having a man who I had supported, support me…our youngest son was almost fourteen at the time and daddy decided he would handle all that meant and thanks to God for that…
Then one day I decided I was going to live out my dreams and write books…it was going to be something I had planned to do when I retired, but after losing my mama, three aunts, an uncle, a stepdad and a godmother in five years I knew how short life was and that there was no time like the present…my son had become an adult, my job was going well and my man and I were as solid as THE ROCK…so I started writing…even decided to become a publisher…and here I am four years and three months later and am one week away from publishing my ninth book…God is so awesome…now don’t think for a minute this thing has been as smooth as silk..it has not..
However, one of the reasons it works is because of prioritizing…deciding for me what was most important…my marriage, my kids, my dreams…because what I knew for sure is that if I took care of my business…God would take care of me and He has…over and over again…allowing me to write books that people actually spend money to purchase, allowing me to say things that people actually listen to and chastising me when I misstep…yanking me back in line when I get beside myself…had a lot of yanking with this last book…almost yanked it out of my hands…but here it is and here I am…grateful as a woman can be, because I have learned that all things come in time, God’s time and not mine…
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angelia
