November 2021
Hello from Orlando!
I just finished the second draft of the next Blake Jordan thriller. It’s really coming along! I have a writer friend I joke around with because whenever I ask how his writing is going, he’ll tell me that he doesn’t know if his work-in-progress is a book yet. After writing this story, I know what he means now. This one was a hard book to write. And now I need to write the final draft over the next few weeks, so I’m not done yet and I don’t want to get ahead of myself… but let’s just say, this story is definitely turning out to be a book. And one I know you’re going to love reading as soon as it’s ready for you.
I’m still plugging away at the paperbacks. I really want to get them out soon so maybe they can be available for Christmas. I’ll send you an email as soon as they’re available.
Other than that, things have been really crazy lately. My youngest son broke his collar bone (he’s better now), everything with the family is always busy, just life in general is crazy. It’s like someone accidentally flipped the switch to hyperdrive and life is just whizzing by. Sometimes I wonder what the point is. Why do we have to have so many struggles? Why does it feel like things are never going to slow down and get easier?
I think it’s because we’re supposed to learn something through the struggles…
Because the truth is, there’s always something to learn in every challenge, in every difficult situation, in every experience. The key is to look for it and to pay attention.
One day, someone we care about will go through the same challenges. And we’ll be there for them, able to walk them through it, able to share how we overcame the odds. We’ll be able to encourage them and reassure them that, if we could do it, so can they.
One day, your story will become someone else’s survival guide.
You will be someone’s living proof that they, too, will make it to the other side.
They say life is lived forward but is only understood backward. So embrace it and know that everything will be okay… and you will end up exactly where you’re supposed to be.
And so will they. The one you’re supposed to help. The one you’re supposed to guide.
Because every challenge is an opportunity for transformation, to learn, and to grow.
Without it, we’d never become who we were meant to be. -Ken