Ava Writes: I'm over at Pearl Girls this week

Ava Writes is the place where I write about my journey as both a Christian writer and a writer of Christian material. And yes, there IS a difference!

My other blog, Pleasing Moments is where I work hard - and write harder! - to inspire and encourage others to Please God More! There you'll find posts about each of the Biblical principles in And God Was Pleased, as well as a healthy dose of my own brand of home-spun wisdom and hopefully even a few insights you can use to live a more worthy life.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

I'm over at Pearl Girls this week

Awhile back I was invited to guest blog over at Pearl Girls, and apparently they liked me so much, they invited me back! hehe

I'm over there this week with a post about motivation.

Check it out!

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Writing for God

When I started writing And God Was Pleased, I started on my knees, asking God to bless my work, to use me to bring others closer to Him. In my arrogance, I never even thought about how the process might bring me closer to Him.

It was, it turns out, God's gift to me.

Writing for God was writing for the ultimate editor. It was writing for my life, and for the lives of the readers who would eventually sift through the pages seeking something.

The sense that what I was writing was more than entertainment or instruction never left me. And carrying it with me, changed the way I write and the way I think about writing.

For example, my current project is romantic fiction, yet hidden within each sentence, each action-reaction scene, is the realization that I am writing for God. He gifted me with the words, the ideas, the creative imagination and the opportunity to write.

It's something I've always known, of course, but after writing an inspirational book, I'm much more aware of using the gift for the Glory of God.

That's what Ava Writes is all about, sharing those special moments, those important reminders, that on-going and ever-growing awareness that I am a writer because God wants me to write.