Discovering Purpose

I sit on the floor 

Starring at the stove 

My phone in my lap 

Text thread open 

Asking what I’ve been doing

As I sit 

Starring 

I try to tally up 

What my life has amounted to 

What I’ve done worth counting 

What I’ve said worth repeating 

Goals of a child still live in me 

But that doesn’t amount to a purpose 

As I review it all 

One question keeps coming up 

What did God put me here for? 

What was I born to do? 

I have some things I’d like do to 

But does that amount to a purpose? 

Questions swirl 

Blurring out everything else 

I don’t see the room around me 

All I see is the years of being dormant 

Not moving towards anything 

Maybe I can’t find my goal 

Because it’s been right in front of me 

Maybe my purpose is discovered 

One step at a time 

Doing the tasks in front of me 

And piece by piece discovering 

What I was meant to do

I sit on the kitchen floor 

With determination building 

I’ve got an adventure 

Right in front of me

I'm Offically Back!

River near us that is overflowing because of all the rain

Hello everyone! It's not one of my regular posting days, but I guess that doesn't really matter. These day's even I find it interesting to see what day I actually end up posting on. Even though I did my highlights, I ended up taking a month-long break from all other posts, which was very nice. 

I wish I could say I got a lot done while I was gone, but I didn't really. I worked on cleaning out my email inbox (It's been cluttered for weeks). I've been working through a course on how to improve my blog and I've been really enjoying that and I've been hanging with my family. Life's been pretty good. I did miss being present here on the blog and interacting with y'all, but now I feel much more prepared to dive back in. 

To be honest, I'm still feeling pretty creatively dry, but I feel like at this point I need to just push through and try to get back into the swing of it. I've got a list of projects that need to get done (Some super exciting ones that I'm eager to share with y'all soon!) and I'm trying my best to get back into them.  

I'm gearing up for NaNoWriMo (yes, I know, a bit early) by beginning to plot my novel. I do not normally plot books (this will actually be my first time) but since it is book two of three in a trilogy I feel like it needs to have a really solid plot. So y'all will probably be hearing about that for a while. I am a fairly visual planner so you might get pictures of my planning process. 

 I am going to attemt to get back to my Monday & Friday posting, but I might still miss a few days as I get back into the swing of things.

So, I feel like it has been forever, what have y'all been up to? Are you getting ready for NaNo?

August Highlights

Well, here were are in September. August wasn't my best month, but I did really enjoy having some time to re-focus on why I blog. I'll share more about that later. 

Every Wednesday I go for a bike ride down to a church four miles from our house, and I always lock up my bike. Well, I came out and tried to undo it, only to find it stuck. The pastor came out and tried his best to unlock, but finally, my dad had to come and cut through the lock for me. Luckily it was a cheap one, and pretty easy to cut.

We surprised my mom by taking her out to lunch one day and then taking her to a museum nearby. This was a huge highlight of my month because they have a big section on space and I had a blast looking at it all. 

I was having a bad day, so my sister Grace stayed up late playing a game of Pandemic (a cooperative board game) with me. 

I had a lot of movie party's with my siblings in August. With everything from Bionic Woman, to High School Musical, to Star Trek, it was an eclectic month. But it was awesome.

For the first time in my life, I got to go to my first water park. All my sisters, my mom and I all went for the day and had an absolutely amazing time. It was a small park but packed full. I went down the tube slides a TON and thankfully only got a mild sunburn on my face.

I got to go on glass bottom boats! This was a really fun experience of actually getting to see under the water and all the life down there. A turtle even followed underneath us for a while. 

I got sick so I spent a whole day listening to "A Name Unknown" by Roseanna M. White and playing computer games. Thus I listened to eight hours of it in one day and about five the next. O.o

My cat nuzzled me awake one morning. Best. wakeup. call. ever.

I got caught up on book reviews this month by writing seven in one day. Those reviews pile up so fast. 

My favorite was A Name Unknown. 

Oops Bess's Bit of Treasure

Guess What I Got Writing is Life

A Trip to the Country Fair A Farm Girls Life

A Bad Dream Woke Me Up A Storynerds Life

Summer '18 Life Update Sunshine and Scribbles

Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag Stories By Firefly

99 Things I Learned from Senior Year Tottally Graced

How was your month? What was your top book of August?

Creatively Dry

Well, some of you may have noticed how scetchy I've been with getting my blog posts up (If you didn't, that's 100% fine. I don't keep up with anybody's blogging schedule). There have been a lot of light night postings, and poetry thrown up without a glance to make sure spelling is corrected. (Who am I kidding, I never do this anyway)

Honestly, I've really missed sitting down like this and spending quality time on a blog post. I've felt rather creativly dry, and running to keep up with everything. Camp NaNo this year was amazing, but super time consuming.

So this is my rambly way of telling you that I am going to take a break from blogging. I think I should be back in about two weeks, but I don't know. I'll definitly be back for my August Highlight's post. 

I'll still be here to reply to comments, and comment on other blogs though. =)

I'll see y'all then, okay? Enjoy the rest of your month! 

Choose Your Own Ending

Hello everyone! Today I’m taking part in Sarah Holman’s, Choose Your Own Story, event. This is to celebrate the release of her latest book, Escape and Endurance (In this event, you get to pick the outcome of the story by making choices. A lot of different things can happen. What are you waiting for? Start your adventure by clicking the image below.

Sir Andrew dropped his hands to his side and was about to move toward her when the princess spun around and pushed him into the room. Before he had time to react, the princess had locked the door. She laughed.

“Did you really think that I would be so easy to persuade.”

“Let me out.”

She laughed and walked away. 

It took a while, but Andrew finally succeeded in breaking down the door. He returned to the castle only to find the princess had arrived before him and spread the tale of what she had done. 

In the end, he supposed that he was the one to learn a lesson: Never trust a princess.

Are you interested in reading about a knight, a tower, a princess, and a servant? Pick up a copy of Escape and Endurance! Haven’t read the other books in the Tales of Taelis series? Not to worry. Each book can stand alone.

About Sarah:

Sarah Holman is a not-so-typical girl, a homeschool graduate, sister to six awesome siblings, and lives in the great state of Texas. If there’s anything adventuresome about her life, it’s because she serves a God with a destiny greater than anything she could have imagined. You can find out more about her at her website: www.thedestinyofone.com

You can join the Adventurers (her newsletter) by going here: http://eepurl.com/bitBIf

Thank you all for joing us!