Where are all my notes?

By Derrice James

Ever since I can remember, I have exhausted myself scribbling down notes for my writing.  I look back and wonder why I just didn’t do what every good writer did in those days, and get a notebook!  I had a collection of yellow post-its, scrap pads, bits of torn paper, backs of envelopes, paper bags, tissues, anything I could get my hands on at the time to quickly jot down my light-bulb moment, when something amazing came to mind, because I knew I would never remember it again, and those thoughts, ideas, quotes, sentences, whatever, to add to my amazing book that I would eventually write, would be forgotten in minutes if I didn’t write them down there and then.

 

I would tell myself regularly that, when I get some time, I will put all my notes together and have enough material to write my book.  

 

All these years of collecting, I eventually managed to find a lot of them, and have put them into a box.  I was quite pleased with myself, but there are still hundreds of others, sitting on old broken laptops and phones that I have no access to it anymore, but my notes, stories and experiences are locked in them! 

 

I should have printed out all my work at the time.  But that was the old me.

 

The new, more organised me has now written and published my book, but have found that I haven’t actually had to use any of the notes I spent 50 years collecting.  The book is on something completely different and was totally inspired by God, who gave me all the words to write. 

 

So I am now thinking, what shall I do with all my notes? When I find them.

 

I believe God has a plan for all my notes.