So I volunteered in this building for two years. The next year my grandson moved to another building where my tutoring was not as good a fit. So, when his third grade teacher asked me to stay with her again, I did. I usually had two of her students each year that I worked with once or twice a week. It consisted of pulling them out individually and listening to them read. After reading books, they would take AR tests. We set goals together and they were rewarded when they met those individual goals.
The significance of this is that I was constantly hearing children’s books! Simultaneously, I was doing some catching up on listening to recorded sermons by Charles Stanley and David Jeremiah and they seemed to be speaking directly to me about the importance of following God’s plan for your life. Thinking back to my original plans, I began to question within myself whether I had given up a talent God had given me and gone completely off the course he meant for me. I remember distinctly that I had come to the conclusion that this must be the case because my talent for creative writing seemed to have just disappeared.
This was my state of mind when I woke up very early one morning with the words to “Abby Sue, Where Are You?” running through my mind. I got up and jotted them all down on a random sheet of paper and put them aside. I knew God put them there but I had no idea what I was supposed to do with them. As a result, they sat there for months. Occasionally I would come across them and tweak them a bit and consider throwing them away. Needless to say, the Lord didn’t allow me to do that and eventually months later led me to how I was to finish it and make it an actual book.
Admittedly we had a lot of detours and diversions but, as promised, that is the saga of how sixty plus years turned into a simple twenty-one page children’s book!
Next time we will take a look at how Abby the Dog and Tigger the Cat, A Story of Friendship, came to be written.
Biblical Inspiration: Matthew 25: 14-30 – The parable of the talents
Lesson In a Nutshell: Age has nothing to do with our ability to be used by God.
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