Get Up And Walk

I've always enjoyed writing.............for myself, my family, maybe an occasional card or something for the children's program a church.  I always got pretty good grades in English in High School and College because I enjoyed it.

However, I never truly considered myself a writer, and I don't really like doing it "on demand!"

That all has changed though.  When I started my ministry, I envisioned it all to be about speaking and singing.  I wanted to make a CD (and actually started on one of those before I ever even TRULY thought of writing a book).

I would joke with family and friends and say, "One of these days I need to write a book!" Or, I would go speak at a church, and someone would ask me if I ever thought of writing a book.  But that's as far as I ever went with the idea.

I love when I go to write something though, and the Spirit moves, and the words begin to flow, and out pours something that I can be proud of, because I know it's of God!

But a book?  Me?  A writer?  An Author?  I dreamed it maybe, but never truly thought that it would happen!

Then, when I went to a weekend ladies convention, where every single speaker and/or singer seemed to have a book for sale, I thought, "This is crazy!  MY story needs to be heard!"

I had promised God when he healed me of a brain tumor, that WHEN, (not if) WHEN He healed me, and we got trough it all, I would tell everyone I could find, that HE did this!  He healed me and brought my family through a horrible couple of years.  The day that the healing was confirmed (my birthday, April 29 2002) I told the teller at the bank, some ladies in the bookstore, and anyone else who would listen!

Some rejoiced with me, one cried, and some looked at me like I had two heads - and my heads were each speaking different languages, and both of those languages were foreign to them!  But I promised, and I was rejoicing, so I told people!

I've spoken at lots of different places between Ohio and Michigan, but I really think that I owe God more than that! 

Finally, and this ladies convention I was talking about, God put this HUGE desire in my heart to not just write for the pleasure of writing, but to write a book!

In the middle of writing that book, something so horrible happened to our family, that I forgot about writing for a while..........

A good evangelist friend told me years ago, "When you go to the front lines for Christ, that's when Satan will hit the hardest."

So, one day, I got myself out of bed, and said, "That's It," and I wrote, and wrote and wrote.

Finding my publisher the way I did (a blog for another day) and the rate at which things took off from there, can only be of God!

So, the title of the book, "Get Up and Walk!" truly IS good advice.  Don't let Satan EVER get you down to the point that you forget what you are supposed to be doing.

Get Up and keep Walking...........And AMAZING things will happen!

(written by AUTHOR - Jewels A. Staiger....yea, that's ME!)