Everything is preparation for God’s will for your life.

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A little over a year ago I started an email list that consisted of my close friends. The reason I started the email list was because my long distance was off the chain! I am the queen of keep in touch but it was costing me too much money to keep calling all of my friends who had moved away.

My former Pastor suggested that I keep in touch through email and one day at work I was bored so I wrote a story about what was going on in my life. My friends started emailing me asking me to keep writing more stories so I did. I added more people to my list and started writing encouraging words about my faith and sharing what I was learning in church and from my Pastor. My email list grew to include over a hundred people, all eager to read my crazy stories, poetry and words of faith.

Soon I began to develop my website, JUSTSAVED.COM and it took on a pretty good following. My desire to share encouraging testimonies snowballed because it seemed like everyone wanted to share their stories of how God moved in their lives. I had a few thousand people visit my website with absolutely NO ADVERTISING. A good Word travels fast right?

Later I came across someone’s weblog and you know the rest of that story. I am able to share about my life on a daily basis, the lessons that I am learning and the passion in my heart with so many wonderful people.

Then I made the big move. I moved to Miami to work for a newspaper and all of the stories and encouraging words that I love to share are getting published in the paper. Recently I was able to add another column in the paper which mirrors the purpose of my website. People write in to me and share their testimonies of how God changed their lives and I get to publish them to an audience of over 115,000 people a week.

All of those emails that I wrote, my weblog and even my website were all preparation for an even bigger audience. God is going to use my gift to glory Him and I am a willing vessel.

Even though I was just having fun, the lessons I learned through writing and sharing for the past year have given me the experience I need to be a better communicator.

Each step in your journey is just as important as the next. Everything builds from the bottom step. Don’t get frustrated at your humble beginnings. God has a plan if you will just allow Him to guide you.

Thank you for allowing me to share my heart with you. One day, In Jesus name, I will share my encouraging words with the world.