THE MEMOIRS OF SUMMER RAY

I have been doing a lot of reading about Noah and the ark. Wow! Just Wow! In the book below,

I read about Noah and how on dry land he built the ark. Back then, there was no rain and no flooding. Noah had never seen anything like it. It is my understanding that he never saw a boat before either. But he chose to trust God when He told him that He was going to flood the earth. I cannot even imagine what that must have been like. Water would come up from the ground to water the earth, and not from the sky. He built the ark because He trusted in what God told him. He was laughed at and ridiculed. But he kept on building. For a 100 years, he kept on building. Some say it took fifty years, others say it was seventy-five. But seriously, how many of us would keep on building something for fifty years, without any real proof of seeing any results? Noah only had God’s warning to go on. But it was enough because He trusted Him.

When I was “called,” to Big Round Top on February 09, 2009, I actually thought I was sent there to do research for another book I was writing. I remember sitting on my couch and I had this overwhelming sense that I needed to go Gettysburg. I had lived in Maryland at the time and I had no idea why I needed to go to Gettysburg. As previously stated, I thought it was for more research. But it was also in the dead of winter and I thought I was nuts! But when I tried to ignore the thoughts to go, they just kept getting louder and louder until I finally gave in. I didn’t know my life was about to change.

But after climbing back down the mountain, I knew I was going to write a story about a girl named Summer and here we are, starting our 17th year. There are eight books in the series with seven completed as well as a finished and polished pilot screenplay. But we haven’t started production yet. We aren’t funded yet. The books are not best sellers yet and the list goes on and on, of what what hasn’t happened yet. I wonder if Noah felt the way I do at times, with all of the what hasn’t happened yet, and how easy it would be to just quit. But for him as well as for me that isn’t an option. He kept going until the ark was finished and then God moved to save Noah and his family as well as the animals and birds etc. I think the word to look at is the word, “save.” God wiped out the corruption of those times that Noah was living in. But Noah helped to save mankind from being extinct altogether. If he hadn’t of listened to God’s warning to build the ark, would we even be alive today? We do not know how Summer Ray will impact the world. We do not know who it will help. It actually is scary to me that quitting would cause someone not to find the Lord. It is a possibility and I am not willing to take that chance. I wrote “They Laughed at Noah…Till it Rained” ten years ago. I just reread it and I had actually forgotten it was also about my journey with Summer Ray.

Here we are ten years later and still building. I think the books on Amazon were like a base camp. (Mt. Everest is mentioned in the above book). But putting them on their new and improved platform is like getting closer and closer to the top. I am not downing Amazon. They gave Summer Ray an amazing start. I didn’t know about ISBN’s or barcodes when I first starting writing the series. I didn’t know I could own my own because I was an amateur. They will still be on Amazon, but now with the availability to be in stores and libraries etc. I made the decision to make 2025 the year of getting everything in order and ready for production. The Pitch Deck will be completed. The books will be on their new platform. But all of this is very time consuming. But once these things are finished, marketing can really begin. This includes book signings and fundraising as well. God has His timing for everything. I wonder if Noah ever got impatient when building what seemed to have taken forever to build. I wonder if he ever got upset because of all he had to endure, or was he so focused on his relationship with God that he kept his composure. If so, I hope to be more like Noah. I can’t say that I have ever doubted what I am doing with Summer Ray. I know with 100 percent certainty, it is what I am to be doing. But I can also say with 100 percent certainty that I have gotten very frustrated with the process at times. But I also know I have matured in that I am trusting God’s timing better. He always has ways for me to make the project better, so how can I be upset about that? I want to give our best. Had Noah not followed God’s instructions, the ark would have most likely capsized and all life on planet earth would have been lost. It puts things in a much needed perspective that God is God, and He knows what He is doing. No matter what, I am keeping God on this jobsite! Period! Enough said!!!

Thank you for being a part of our Summer Ray world!

Reference: “keeping God on this jobsite,” – “God The Covenant and the Contradiction page 78″ https://my.kcm.org/category/special-offers/all-special-offers/hc-the-covenant-and-the-contradiction-300086