My dream, however, was to also
get those little prayers to as many folks as possible, to anyone who wanted
them – and, to do it at a very low price. The self-published paperback,
however, because of how print-on-demand works, costs too much for it to be
really effective. In seven years, I’ve only sold about 40 of them. I’ve given
away a dozen or so.
Meanwhile, I keep writing a prayer
here, and one there, depending on my needs and concerns.
Suddenly, yesterday, I realized that
I have been overlooking one very obvious way of getting those prayers into an
everyday buyer’s hands, at a low price – digital bookmarks! Even after I offer
them as a digital download, it will be easy to print them, laminate them (now
that I have a neat little low-cost laminating machine), and add a ribbon. So, I
can offer them both ways. And cheaply.
Hopefully, I’ll start with two sets –
one will include prayers for dealing with four of our most common daily
concerns and issues. The other set will concern not ourselves, but others.
The odd thing about this epiphany of
mine is that I have been searching for my digital camera for almost two weeks
in this double-wide mobile. I have things I wanted to photograph and put into
my Etsy shop.
This morning, I realized that maybe He has been holding the
camera back, waiting for me to take charge of our prayers (I say “ours” because
many of them did not come from me, but from Him). I would almost bet that once
I create those first bookmarks and put them in the shop, I will suddenly find
that camera, and in a very obvious place.
They say everything happens no
according to our timing, but according to His. I believe it. Back when I first
self-published that book, I did not know about Etsy. I did not have the
bookmark template I have now. And I did not know some other things, then, that
I do now.
I guess the time has come.
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