OH MY!

My phone rang the other night. I picked it up. . ."Hello."

"Is this Kristin Bridgman?"

"Yes, it is."

This is  _____from West Bow Press Publishing. We would like to talk with you about your book. How's it going?"

Something started to flutter in my stomach. I got hot. . .(that could have been one of thousands of hot flashes though)

She proceeded to ask lots of questions and I gave lots of answers. She said my book was right up their alley and were very interested in talking with me more. I gulped. Oh my!

This was making it seem all the more real...as real as I have prayed for it to be...and now to hear someone from a publishing company, a child of Thomas Nelson no doubt, calling me about my book!

Oh my! Oh dear!

I don't know if they are the ones or not. But it was exciting to have someone act interested.

For over a year I have written thousands of words, moving sentences, changing titles, dreaming of what it would look like. My husband has come in to help revise, we have a proofreader who is teaching us much.

And the prayers!  Oh my! So many prayers for the right words, the right chapter titles, the right title for book, the right picture for front, to just be able to finish it, and most importantly, that the message would come across the way God had put it on my heart.

I'm not only writing my story, I'm writing other's stories. I'm taking their life and putting it out there for others to see. I take this responsibility very serious and I am so grateful to all who were brave enough to share their stories with me.

I'm still working on the book with my husband and proofreader, but I pray it will be done by the end of the year. But I know the best time for it to be finished is in God's time. I have placed this book in God's hands. It has been there from day one. And I will release it when He says too.

Oh my! May my ears always be listening, ready to hear from the Author of Life Himself.

 

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I never thought in a million years I would write a book. It seemed out of the realm of possibilities. But with God, all things are possible.
Do you believe that?

Is He calling you to do something that makes you go, "Oh MY!"
Two words of advice from me. . .
"DO IT!"

No only will you go "Oh My" but "WOW!"
It's fun to see God make what seemed impossible into possible.

       I would like to share what I have so far as to what to put on the back cover of the book. . .would this make you interested?

 

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Come journey with me into the world of the homeless, a world I first stepped into during the winter of 2009. It began with a big, dark man on a park bench who stole my heart. Sit with me as I visit with a registered sex offender who became changed by grace. Listen as I visit with a man who took the blade to his entire body and with the young man who took the ink tool to his skin to tell his story. Meet the lady who had all ten fingers broken by her abusive father and the young lady whose father beat her across the back with a 2x4. Come, meet these and others and discover as I did when I opened my eyes and peered into the lives of the homeless through the eyes of Jesus, that there was something more than what the earthly eyes see. . .sweet souls buried beneath the outer self.

 

God gave me a glimpse of what He sees. At times, it was overwhelming and other times, inspirational. I found my neighbors at the downtown park and under the bridge; the lives of so many unseen, unnoticed, forgotten. I have experienced love from those others have shunned. I have witnessed beauty, grace and strength in places I could not have imagined. I heard of redemption, restoration, and forgiveness.

 

Please join me and let me introduce you to my new friends. Stand ready for your heart to change when you see through the eyes of Jesus.

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To be changed by Him. . .
OH MY!


Did anything make you go OH MY recently. . .or at anytime?
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