[Wednesday, February 1, 2006]
Sending material proved to be the right thing to do, as this morning I awoke late and tired and discouraged, fired up the new machine just to delete the “games” folder – which I did – and when I looked at email, the first in order of sending was from [my brother] Paul saying “Do you know how wonderful what you’re doing is?” And there were other cheering messages, from Rich and from Ann Martin. It helps.
All right, friends.
You see that sending out the material was right. Right for you, right for unpredictably many who eventually read it. Internet = immortality, you know – old versions of your Gateway writing are still out there. In this you are a bit like your old photographer friend who would find that people had saved his pictures that you printed on the front of your paper and would pin them on a bulletin board, or clip them to the refrigerator.
Is Paul entirely right, that discouragement is built of “falsely conceived expectations of ourselves”?
You heard it just then, you see: It isn’t like he is immune to discouragement. No one is, it is a human characteristic, and perhaps we shall say something about it. Continue reading Discouraged? Advice from TGU