Sigh. That's what I am going to do as soon as I insert the .pdf file of my support newsletter onto this blog post and save it. Oh wait. I can't. I'll sigh once I get my support newsletters signed and mailed to everyone that's ever said hello to me. Okay, well maybe not everyone…
Here's the scoop.
I wanted to do something different for my support letter so I decided to create something a little more than a simple sheet of black and white to send out to all of you. The idea for a cheerful newsletter came to mind, so I set to work straight away. With many hours of writing, editing, inserting, fixing, stressing, and praying under my belt, I had finally come to my final draft and it was just about ready to send off to the printer when….
Wait for it.
THE FILE BECAME CONTAMINATED and I lost it in it's entirety!
@$%&!!! It's what I felt like saying as I sat in front of the computer about ready to scream. I think God intentionally put me in a public place at that time because had I been in the comfort of my home working on it I'm pretty sure I would have said one or two things I would have later regretted.
Instead, I was fighting back the tears, forcing myself to breathe, and convincing myself that there was something in the newsletter that God didn't want me to say. Clearly there is no other explanation for all of that hard work going down the toilet.
The next evening I went to start over, and before I began I prayed to God that he would be my words, and that he would come up with everything I needed to say because I didn't have the time or the energy to put into this new creation like I had for the first. I couldn't stand the thought of another 20+ hours of typing, editing, fixing, etc.
I sat in front of the computer and in 2.5 hours I had a second newsletter just about ready to send off to the printer. I have no idea how he did it, but I certainly could never have done that without him. I cried in that moment because God completely answered my prayer in the moment I felt completely defeated. I pray that he speaks to you through my newsletter and that he puts it in your heart to come along with me through this journey!
Part 2 next: My condensed and sweetened version of my Newsletter.
