Writing when you don’t feel like it is not a good thing. Those are the days in which what you write usually ends up being edited out. Today is one of those days, I am tired. I spent most of the day with my 99 year old great uncle, it was a very enjoyable day but exhausting.
Unlike many elderly my uncle is still in his right mind, walks with a cane but not dependent on it, and is full of energy. I have taken him out on errands before at that time we went to: Lowes, Walmart, the At&T store and the bank, because that is where he wanted to go. Not one time did he complain about being in pain or tired. Yes, my great uncle was a very special man and I am blessed to be able to help him. My tiredness is a good thing because it is an indication of a productive day.
In serving someone else my mind is unable to focus on self-indulging behaviors such as writing. It is because there is life outside of me that I can participate in and lend a helping hand to that leads me to this state of not having the desire to write now. Except, I am a Christian writer

2 Corinthians 4:16 (KJV)
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Philippians 3:13-16 (KJV)
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

It is not about a feeling but faith. In my living I can still be a help to a stranger, friend or family member, this is what Jesus would do; this is what Jesus did with nails in his hands and feet. I will not faint, I will press on, I will and have taken a deep breath and began writing.

Psalm 34:1-3 (KJV)
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

I am an active participant of National Novel Writing Month- these entries are unedited on purpose- Marsha L Floyd
*Scripture quoted is from the King James Version of the Bible unless otherwise stated
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