How many of us say we are going to do something and don’t? How often does that happen?
All the time, right?
When I wrote GoldenHeart: How to Love Humanity, it was what a reader would call a “thesis on love.” It shares why you often don’t love yourself, how to get out of that programmed thinking and learn more about yourself to love. The next sections teach how to love others better with life examples. The inspirational love manual shares the large-scale love missions of Nobel Peace Prize winners and everyday people. Then, the reader is urged forward into his or her love mission.
Which left me in a bind with my love mission, lol. I felt called to work with orphans, the poor, hurting, and homeless. Those are my people — the forgotten ones and the people who many ignore. For my second GoldenHeart book, I decided to write loving, inspirational messages on life topics for people who are orphans, foster kids, are bereaved, or who just feel alone, even if they have family.
While writing the book, I realized that my method of speaking, and being a woman would limit my love mission’s capacity to reach hurting hearts. This isn’t in a negative sense. There are people craving a father’s voice, you see. Or a practical one, or a voice sweeter than mine. So, I expanded my mission by soliciting the help of people with some of the biggest hearts I know. Some never responded. Some said they would submit something and never did. A few didn’t work out for various reasons.
But thirty-five of my peers did me a solid.
It took a lot of effort and is a time grabber, but GoldenHeart II: We Are Your Family is not a book. It’s a mission. I wrote a science fiction fantasy book and that is entertainment. But the GoldenHeart Series is a lifetime work to get it into the hands of people who need and want it. The e-book is free and the paperback’s profits roll back into the community it was written for by purchasing books for orphans and foster kids who don’t have access to computers, cell phones, or WiFi.
Sometimes, you undertake something and you know it will a huge commitment and you will need to pray for its completion and reach. That’s what the GoldenHeart Series books are. They are here to love the world. I hope the mission and love touches and blesses all who wrote for or read it.
I’m most at home on Twitter as @lovegoldenheart or on Instagram as @christinagoebel. I hope to see you and learn about your love missions — what you were born to do.