People, Time, God & Toastmasters
I have something to say, but I can get no one to listen!! Maybe they’ll READ it.
It takes the right people, at the right time, and God will make it happen!
In this case, it was two Toastmasters, one who wanted to blog, and one who just started his own business as a website host, plus, of course, the “chance meeting” at which God took over!
Upon completion of my Toastmaster Competent Communicator award in 2001, I had business cards printed! I was going to be a motivational speaker! No one wanted to listen. Ten years later, after many speech contests and various leadership roles, I earned my Distinguished Toastmaster award. I was ready to step out onto the stage. No one wanted to listen!
I have so much to say! I KNOW I can write! It was 2015 and I was hearing about blogs! I could do that! I “hired” a woman at church to teach me how to BLOG. I even had NEW business cards printed – as a speaker and a BLOGGER! That BLOG went nowhere! It was a do-it-yourself blog service and I’m not wired for techie stuff. I was embarrassed to keep asking how to do this and do that…I gave up! I BLEW THE BLOG!!
Then came 2020, and the Covid 19 pandemic. It was March 23 — an online Toastmaster meeting. I was “in the Gallery”, as Area Director, with my Cadillac Area Toastmasters Club. The introductory question was “how are you handling the Covid lock down”? Many talked about work, but one member said he had quit his job — TWO weeks before Covid. He was starting his own business – hosting websites!
That tickled my ears! I contacted him after the meeting!! Yes! He could help me set up a blogsite! The rest is history!! I made the commitment. I set the date! I could complete a Toastmaster elective by posting eight blogs in thirty days. I DID IT!! I’M A BLOGGER!!
Tom Bartholomew, BARTHOLOMEW MEDIA GROUP, is a patient, innovative instructor. I am his first client so there are a few things we’re learning together. He has just created a training video to help me with a special technique I requested. How special is that?!?
I have a lot to “say” regarding the difference a Grannie of God can make in the lives of her family! Grannies have the Keys to the Kids! My Grannies planted the seeds of Jesus in me. It took Fellow Toastmaster, Michelle Wise, to fertilize those seeds, but they’re GROWING STRONG, now!
This entire message is based on one sentence:
It takes the right people, at the right time, and God will make it happen!
Thank you Father God and Thank you Toastmasters!!