As a not so starving writer but most definetly an unknown one, my dream is just like all the other writers out there. A published piece of work that makes the #1 Bestsellers list. Or at least just having something published and on the shelves for people to consider. There are days when I see it all happening and there are other days where I ask, "How in the world is this going to happen?" Of course, the doubt sets, in repeating things like, "You will never make it." "You don't have enough to invest in yourself." "You are not popular enough." "You have too little time to work on anything." And it continues on from there. But I started thinking about Doubt's statements as they are running through my head and the ones that stand out the most are the ones that say I don't have enough of whatever I apparently need to make it big.
Having very little. Isn't that where all great things stem from? Very little? At least many of the Bible stories do. A few fish and loaves of bread to feed 5000 +, Elijah alone proving who the true God is against about 400 prophets and wasn't there a war with only 300 soldiers going up against tens of thousands...and won. David was smaller than Goliath and beat him, Jesus began His time on Earth as a small baby, and we can move mountains with faith as small as a teeny tiny mustard seed. Such mighty things that come from some very small things.
So I have come to the conclusion that although I may not have much, except will and rough talent, something big can happen. Especially since I have faith...like a mustard seed.
"Another parable He put forth to them, saying: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its' branches.'" Matthew 13:31-32
