009E – Start with a Seed

WRITE NOW! Workshop Podcast: Write a Book, Change the World with Kitty Bucholtz · Jan 7, 2018 · 9m

I love new beginnings, and I'm a big fan of hitting the Restart button at any time. But sometimes we wonder if what we're doing right now is good enough. Is it the right idea or should we be working on something else?

Then I'm reminded of the mustard seed, a tiny seed that can grow large enough that birds of the air nest in its branches. That's encouraging! Until I think about how seeds have to be buried alone in the dark, damp ground, and how the seeds are destroyed by the earth. Not encouraging - if you look at only that moment in time.

But our lives are not a series of moments in time; all…