Pressing to Win the Prize
How was your holiday weekend? Parades and fireworks? Family picnics?
I did none of the above. I often miss the longer hours I had to talk things over with my Best Friend when I cared for my parents, so now when there is a holiday and I’m not expected to be somewhere, I like to take some leisurely hours for a retreat with my Best Friend. I always come away refreshed and enthused for the work projects before me. Sometimes there are new ones!
For some months I’ve known about a writers’ contest by Word Alive Publishing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I’ve been thinking that would be a great place to enter that devotional book I wrote on the Joy Gems I found in the Bible. So far I had done nothing about it. I went online to check the contest instructions and realized that I would have to reformat my manuscript to comply with the rules. (Sigh).
So I spent a number of hours at it on Saturday, and again on Sunday, and I’ve given up my half hour Bible study each morning this week to work on it. This morning I got all the basic work done, but I need to check the index as I think somewhere I have a wrong page number. I also want to read it all over once more to make sure I’ve caught all the little errors that I may have missed.
The deadline for submissions is next week on the 15th, so I want to get it in the mail by the end of this week. I don’t know if I’ll make it. But I must try! The prize is a publishing package worth $4000!