Hi friends,
I am smack in the middle of doing edits to the Legacy Bible study. Oh my goodness, this is tedious work. Makes me want to pull my hair out, but alas, it has to be done.
For those of you who have never published (which also includes me) let me share that things are done a little differently than we were taught in high school grammer and typing classes. For example, when I learned to type (yes, on a manual typewriter back when all you had to listen to were AM/FM stations and vinyl records) we were taught to double space after the punctuation at the end of the sentence. Well, that is a no-no in publishing land. You only put a single space between sentences!!! Yikes! So, my manuscript is double spaced after each ending punctuation mark. Of course it is because it is like breathing to me.
Type. Punctuation mark. Double space.
Type. Punctuation mark. Double space.
You get the drill. My editor sends me the beginning of the edits and what do you think is the biggie that has to be changed????? You got it. Double spaces after the punctuation marks!!! Aaarrrgghhhh!!!
So, I may not blog anything original for a while. However, I wanted to offer you Excerpt #2 from the study, From the Trash Pile to the Treasure Chest: Creating a Godly Legacy. This excerpt is from the second week of the study and the focus is how your faith is crucial to the legacy you are leaving for the generations that come behind you. If you missed the first excerpt, you can go here to read it.
Consider your faith as you build your legacy:
In Your Churning Place, Robert Wise shares a story that reminds us that failure can be used by God for good as we walk this dusty road of life.
“I had a friend who used to call me on the phone on Monday mornings. I’d pick up the phone and this minister would say, ‘Hello, this is God. I have a gift for you today. I want to give you the gift of failing. Today you do not have to succeed. I grant that to you.’ Then he would hang up. I would sit there for ten minutes, staring at the wall.
“The first time I couldn’t believe it. It was really the gospel. God’s love means it’s even Ok to fail. You don’t have to be the greatest thing in the world. You can just be you.”
Yes, my legacy building friend, you can just be you.
Perhaps you are thinking, “Leah, you have no idea what being ‘me’ looks like. I have messed up so many times that my middle name is ‘mistake’.”
No, I don’t know what ‘being you’ looks like, but I do know how terribly I have failed over the years that I have walked with Jesus. I also know that making trophies of grace from the trash pile of life is the specialty of Jesus. How do I know that? Because I am one. God loves taking ordinary, failure-prone, repeat-offender humans and turning them into portraits of faith worthy of being held up as examples for those who follow behind.
Have a great weekend my friends. 
