“Tomorrow Is Not Promised”- Book 1 of My Author Book Series

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Welcome to Book #1 Tomorrow Is Not Promised: A Personal Journey of Total Submission to Holy Spirit

Summer is basically over as kids are going back to school, so I have shifted gears also. I decided to start a new series of blog posts about the books I have written called My Author Book Series. I wanted to share my heart with you as to why I wrote each of these books for those of you that are new to my blog and to me as an author.

Each of my books has a unique reason and a God-story as to why I wrote them. I have written and published six books and for the next 6 blogs posts I will be blogging about those books and telling you how I wrote them, why I wrote each book, what God said to me about those books and what they mean and more.

So with that said, let me welcome you to my first book, Tomorrow Is Not Promised: A Personal Journey of Total Submission to Holy Spirit. (click here to purchase on Amazon)

The dream of this book

The idea from this book was all God. It started on October 12, 1990. My mother had died just two months earlier and I was trying to learn life without her. I was working at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company in Omaha, NE. It was a gorgeous building with stunning black glass when you drove up. I worked on the 5th floor with lots a windows that didn’t open. They just looked wonderful. The view was amazing to look at.

One day while at work everyone had gone to lunch. I was sitting at my cubicle this day instead of going out. (Now that I think about this I really liked that job and not sure why I didn’t keep working there what a great opportunity) Anyway, I stayed at my desk and began to feel a breeze. A literally breeze, gentle wind blow past me. It was such a breeze that one or two of the papers on the end of my desk began to move they literally from the breeze. Then I heard God speak to me suddenly like the speed of light and slow motion at the same time. (Not kidding). Then a conversation started like this…

The voice of God began to speak

He said, “You are going to write a book.” I said, “What am I gonna call it?” God said, “You are going to call it Tomorrow Is Not Promised.” I said, “How will I get it published?” God said, “Don’t worry about that I will get it published. But for all the books you write you must only write what I tell you.”

You guys, from that forward in my life every single day of my life all I think about is writing books. Not a day goes by that I don’t want to write or dream about this. I immediately turned around to my work computer and typed out something wonderful it was all God but you know what since that day I can’t find what I typed. I printed it out and lost it.

I got home from work and looked in my apartment closet. What was I looking for? All the Writer’s Digest books on publishing. Believe it or not I had been collecting them every year for years and didn’t know why. I was just buying them, drawn to them. I had 5 of them and looked and them and rubbed the cover thinking one day I would be an author. I wanted to write that night but I couldn’t because I had to go to church. I remember going to church and when I got there I totally forgot about the word of the Lord. As the service continued, my pastor called me to the front during prayer. I will never forget this as long as I live. She called me to the front and put her hands on my head and told me these words…

“The lord said you are going to write a book called Tomorrow Is Not Promised and it will go around the world. There are many books that you are going to write and they will take wings.” I was floored, shocked, done, amazed and thought God sees me! It was a confirmation sure as I was standing there.

The long journey

But, little did I know it would take 26 years later before I wrote the book Tomorrow Is Not Promised. Why? I don’t know except to say that I had to live out the contents of this book. I lived this book each and every one each and every day. The book you see above is my heart and soul. It is true and what I lived in the moments. As best as I can explain it, I had to live to to write it. It is my first book and it opened the dam so to speak of my life of writing.

This book is about the pain I went through in going through infidelity and divorce from the man God gave to me as a husband. But it is more about, how to have an intimate relationship with Holy Spirit no matter what you go through. It is about the lessons that God wants to teach each of us when we are in a hard dark place. It is about Him, the precious Holy Spirit and who He wants to be for you in the middle of a storm.

This book was my first and my most precious gift. It was the start of a life long dream of writing that makes me feel one with God His call for my life. If I could do nothing but write all day everyday I would. I live for the feeling of writing and accomplishing something that will bless the people of the world.

I pray you get a copy of my book and enjoy it because it is His gift to you. I was just the ready writer with the pen.