There's a three-word lie you might be telling yourself right this very minute. Want to know what it is?

Well, you know, I'm about to tell you. Welcome to Lisa Unfiltered on the Jesus of Our Everything show,

where I say what I mean, I mean what I say. And in every conversation, I pray to keep Jesus at the center.

Here we go.

So when people find out I'm an author, a lot of times they'll say to me,

oh, I've always wanted to write a book and I'll ask them, well, why haven't you ever tried to write one before? And they may say, oh, I don't have the time or it seems hard,

which I appreciate that one because by the way,

it is, it is. But a lot of times they will just simply say something like, I'm just not ready

yet. And if they do, I will generally ask them this question back, okay, why? Why are you not ready

yet? And a lot of times they won't have a good answer for me.

Now, maybe they have a story to tell and that story is still being worked out inside them and it

needs to heal. And in that case, they might truly not be ready yet. And I respect that. I really

truly do because sometimes we aren't ready for things like writing a book, writing our

story out, or a career, or maybe a family. And something in our culture that I wish more

young people would realize is that we live in a hurried culture, a get it out there too fast culture, and young people need to

realize, and really it's made its way into even my peers in our culture, we need to realize

that things do take time. They take far more time than a lot of times we give them. The best

things often take time. And we really do

truly live in a rush culture and we rush far, far too much. So I respect not being ready

in some, if not many cases. But like in many things in life, there is another side. There are a lot

of us who are telling ourselves this

lie of I'm not ready, which if you want to get technical, is a four-word lie, actually,

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