I have gone without an income for two years now. It has been my choice to do so because I felt as if God had called me to be a Christian writer. Throughout these two years I have battled times of deep depression.

Over the last two years I have gone through a vicious attack on my finances and have encountered absolute harassment from various individuals. They all wanted me to go back to work as a nurse. I have even had my social security number stolen and have had to fight the IRS on an identity theft issue.

It has been anything but easy to walk this path.

At first I thought I needed to work on my novel and I worked very hard on rewriting it. I had a great editor but I got bogged down with his constant suggestions and finally I decided I could not afford him anymore.

Last summer I was thinking about returning to my nursing degree. Then I fell and broke my collar bone and my doctor put a medical restriction on me.

Throughout the former year I had been researching the publishing industry and had decided that I would self publish. If you self publish you need to have a fan base already built up. So I decided that I would launch a blog.

This blog has become enormously successful due to each and every one of you.

Yet I still had such intense episodes of depression because I was not making any money from it.

I got angry at God because I had learned to walk in righteousness and was following His calling on my life and yet I was not making a blooming penny.

I felt as if I had been abandoned by Him and I was bitter.

Yesterday I realized that I have been wrong to be bitter. I should be so grateful because He had protected my savings to allow me to not work for someone else for two whole years. One calamity can bankrupt even the most successful of us.

Although my financial state is now at the point of bankruptcy I am now gaining some awesome companies who are wanting to use my blog as an advertising base for their merchandise.

I am constantly thinking of ways to monetize this successful blog and I have come up with a brilliant idea I believe. I am not ready to launch it yet because it is still in the development stage but when it is launched I think it will be a great success.

As always I am thinking of what you, my readers, could gain from this blog. It appears as if you have grown fond of my writing and I appreciate that but as a single mother I always have wondered what would have made my life easier during those difficult years when I was working for an income and raising three children single handedly.

I have come up with a plan which will assist each and every one of you who read my blog but you need to take part.

I will tell you in the near future what I need for you to do and let’s see if we can not make this a beneficial agreement for both of us. I seriously am so excited about this I can barely sit still. In fact, I will have to go out and hoe my garden this afternoon to get some of that excitement a way out of me.

So stay tuned!

Thanks so much for reading my blog. Hugs to you all!

Gracie Lynne