I'm with Miss Piggy

 

"I plan to write more books whenever I can find the appropriate writing attire and color-coordinated pen."
Miss Piggy

 

I love writing. I love words. I held a dream once that I was going to write a book. A real book, that even got published. Some days I think it might still happen. Most days I believe it won't.

The really sad thing is that I got >< this far to achieving it. I did a course. Not just any course. A good post graduate course at a good university. My writing was ok. So ok I was offered a place on a phd in Creative Writing.

It didn't happen. Life got in the way. That attic writing room overlooking the sea hasn't materialised. My purpose bought laptop is great for social media networking and writing a blog. There were marketing jobs.

My dream has disintegrated before my potential got a hold of it.

Faith can do that too. Believing in something is a strange concept in itself. Having a faith is more than just believing. We can do many things that come close to living out what we believe. Get offered some great chances. Then it just slides.

It takes perseverence, dedication and a willingness to keep going. Faith needs movement. It needs investment and it needs you to believe, in yourself, in your future, in the bigger picture.

Don't wait for the right moment. Now is as close as you are going to get.

Faith needs action.

Dear friends, do you think you’ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, “Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!” and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup—where does that get you? Isn’t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense? I can already hear one of you agreeing by saying, “Sounds good. You take care of the faith department, I’ll handle the works department.” Not so fast. You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.

Do I hear you professing to believe in the one and only God, but then observe you complacently sitting back as if you had done something wonderful? That’s just great. Demons do that, but what good does it do them? Use your heads! Do you suppose for a minute that you can cut faith and works in two and not end up with a corpse on your hands?

From James chapter 2 (The Message)
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