I presented to them the good, bad and ugly, the happy moments filled with joy and the hard lessons I had learned from being a complete idiot and taking the path of foolishness. I told them stories and moments of my life they had never known about or that I never told then. This book was filled with details of my character and personalities before, during and after I came to know the Lord as my personal Savior. I described how certain events in my life changed me and made me wiser, and how many things in my life where I had to keep getting knocked down emotionally, spiritually and physically until I finally woke up on the right side of God. I wanted them to truly know who their dad was and is. Oh, there is a lot that I didn't write about and things they'll NEVER know about me. Those are events in my life that are between me and God, and I'll likely give account for many of them. Nevertheless, my daughters have a complete history of 90% of my life's experiences. It is something they'll be able to read and re-read after I've departed this earthly plane.
So there's that book I wrote. Well, last year, for my birthday, my oldest daughter bought me a subscription to Storyworth. Storyworth is an online site where one can write their own book by answering specific questions that are presented. My daughter picked out a lot of the questions to be written about, for these are question she wanted to hear my thoughts on or for me to write about something she particularly wanted to know about. Storyworth presents a myriad of questions for the writer (me) to also chose from, but many times I deleted a question and wrote about a question I chose or designed.
Storyworth would send me a weekly notification (on Mondays) what my next question was to write about, although I already knew what the question was going to be, for I had log-in access to my account. Long story short, I had 52 weeks of writings I designed into 52 chapters. I completed this book of 52 chapters on 28 May 2024. I thoroughly enjoyed this past year writing about chapter titles my daughter picked for me and/or some I devised myself. At the completion of my writings, I was able to design my book title, my book cover photo, the book color and the format of chapters and index. My daughters now have a second book for their library, which is hardbound. It is 367 pages filled with many more stories about my life, but on a more down to earth read compared to my first book. These stories are more about my thoughts and musing on specific chapter titles with a bit of personal philosophy and lessons learned tossed in.
Now they have no excuses for not having anything to read.
Anyway...this is what my Storyworth book looks like:
PS: This is NOT a published book, it is a private writing. My daughters, myself and my brother are the only ones who have a copy.
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