A line in a newsletter I read this morning, this very morning, Saturday, March 1, 2008, said something like “…such action required more nerve than he could have ever mustered by himself.�

This was a true article about a poor young man, a boy really, who had some kind of spiritual guides who visited him at night and told him he was going to do great things in the world such as build a railroad and become a millionaire. And, God bless the boy, he did!

This article made me think of several random things, and I am — surprise! — going to share them with you!

Certainly, I give credit to this young man who did go ahead and make something of himself in the world and so contribute to it. It was no small thing he did. At the same time, accomplishments in the world don’t impress me anymore as they once might have. Honestly, I don’t know what impresses me anymore. Love, I suppose.

This article did do something for me, however, relevant to having nerve and the learning that comes from it.

When I say nerve, you may think I’m referring to Heavenletters, but, actually, I’m not. Heavenletters was all God. Nerve or not nerve didn’t really enter into it. It was more like Heavenletters™ and Godwriting™ were something that happened to me. It’s like I had no say. It would have taken great nerve not to do Heavenletters. As it was, it never occurred to me to stop. I don’t think I could have. I was caught in a stream of God’s Will (I believe), and that was it.

But this Godwriting blog is another thing. It’s my stuff. It does take nerve!

For quite a while, I would post a blog entry whenever an idea of something to write about came along, and there was the time to do it. It might be four or five days between entries.

At the beginning, Heaven Admin had suggested that I write an entry every day, and I declined. Too much for me to handle. The idea that a blog entry every day would be a good thing must have been echoing in my mind because, at some point, I took a deep breath, decided I would do it, and then I dived in. I intended daily blogwriting to be a kind of acknowledgement to Heaven Admin for initiating, creating, and setting up this beautiful site. As you must know, I enjoy writing for this blog and the interaction tremendously.

After I made the commitment to post a blog entry every day, many ideas came, and I would often have five, six, seven blog entries written ahead! I loved the comfort of that, much like Winnie the Pooh who liked to admire his stock of honey jars and regularly count how many he had!

Lately, it has been busier than ever. I am swamped, and I haven’t been able to write blog entries ahead of time. Now I’m writing most of them on the morning of the day I post them! Like this very one you’re reading now. So blogwriting has become more like Godwriting in that I’m flying blind.

Last night I had no idea what I would write about this morning. In fact, I had no ideas whatsoever! I didn’t panic exactly, but I did have it on my mind. During sleep, whenever I turned over, there was a little agonizing: “What am I going to write about? I don’t know what I’m going to write about. I don’t have anything to write about.�

And then, this morning, I read that piece about the young boy who built a railroad, and I was spurred to write this!

I learned from this experience that there will always be something to write about. Necessity is the mother of all invention and all that is true. For sure, if I had not made the commitment to post a blog entry every day, I wouldn’t have written this one.

I also have another greater understanding. This little experience this morning also tells me what we have probably heard all our lives, and that is:

God will provide.

What was I worried about?

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.” Matthew