I've Been Inspired...the Full Story (Uncensored!)

A little while ago I wrote a brief little post about being inspired. That was all that was said. Well, after receiving hundreds of comments on it (ok, actually just one, but you know what they say about comments...for every person that comments 99 other people were thinking the same thing!) I decided to post what I was inspired about.

I want to be a humourist.

There. It's out. I've come out of the closet (not in that way though..not that I'm in the closet...ah, forget it)

The person who inspired me was Phil Callaway. I've been a fan of Phil for quite a few years now although I had never read one of his books. And by fan I mean I heard him once at Breakforth a number of years ago, attended his session on learning how to tell a good story, and then completely forgot about him until about 2 weeks ago. That was when I heard that our church, West Portal, was bringing Phil in to speak at our annual Christmas banquet. I immediately got excited to hear him speak again, but like Microsoft Vista every 47 minutes, it eventually crashed on me when I realized I was going to be in BC at that time and wasn't coming back until the day after he spoke. Regardless, I was inspired to do something similar to him...get people all excited and then crush their dreams. No, I'm just kidding. I realized that if there is one thing I think I am good at it is telling and writing stories.

Now many of you who read this blog are probably thinking to yourself, "You? A humourist? The only time I found you funny was when I saw you demonstrating how to do the breakdance move The Worm and it looked more like a beached whale trying to get back to water!" Well, that may be true and you are very much entitled to your opinion. Ironically, the other night Shiela and I were over at some friends and I decided to share this new ambition in my life. And what did they do...they laughed. I mean, I guess that's what I wanted, but I didn't realize I had told a joke yet :-)

For a long time now I've been struggling with what I am good at. I look at all the people around me and wonder why I can't play music or do construction or draw or be a handyman or know things about cars or be creative enough to come up with the concept of The Wiggles and have every kid in the world loving me. Now I'm not wanting to be envious of any of you and I am glad God has gifted all of you with those talents. I've just been wanting to find out what God has gifted me with and use it for Him. I really feel that this is an area I can be good at and feel that God has given me a talent to do this.

So there it is. I'm writing a book and I hope I can make you all laugh by sharing my life experiences. Since I'm sure you'll all want to buy about 10 copies each I'll let you know that it should be out sometime in...oh...let's say sometime in 2008. Oh, and if anyone knows any publishers that want to sign me on already tell them to give me a call (no really, I'm serious).