Dotsie, This is my first time on ANY message board, but your question intriqued/excited me. Let me take a moment to intro myself, I am starting over-literally. After 25 years a marriage I have found out my husband was living a double life. I am facing many new changes, all at once. My mother has passed away after a long fight with cancer. I am going through the painful divorce process, my son will be leaving for college this fall. I find myself alone, facing a great big world, with no backup except God.

For many years God has been telling me to write a book. I have been working on it off and on for many years, all the while telling myself "who am I to be writing this and why would anyone want to hear anything from me?" Since all these challenging events have unfolded in my life in the last 7 months, I have completed and brought a book to publication, an autobiography, but it is not the one that God has clearly told me to write. I have dug it all back out and started on it again--I now see that during this time, God has honed my writing skills and the new version will be much better. The time I have struggled, feeling guilty that I wasn't pursuing His whisper at the time and now realizing that God's timing also comes into play. Sometimes His whispers are far in advance of when He wants us to do something. The whispers begin to prepare the 'soil' the creative part of us for later. The book would never have been published in its previous form, but I trust that it will be recieved now when finished.

When it is finished though I face a new challenge--specifically taking this latest chapter of my life and putting it in book form in a way that impacts women without it being a 'tell all' book. I think finding out your husband is a gay, pedophile would make for a good book. Does anyone have any suggestions on finding good balance for such a project?

Thanks for listening, Starting Over