Someone once told me that a writer’s responsibility is to speak to our good and bad thoughts, words, and deeds in terms of how these behaviors affect the world around us. The past, the present, and the future are directly linked to man’s ability to love one another. Yesterday, I e-mailed my fourth book, “With Love, All Things Are Possible,” to my publisher and sighed relief after five long months of hard work.
The material for the book revolved around five years of my own blogs, including the effects of COVID on our society and myself. It was not long before I realized I have become more concerned about America’s problems and where we are headed as a nation than at any other time in my life. There are so many issues that begin with a divided nation and how we struggle with what Jesus Christ requested of us: to love one another. Strengthened by historic examples of people who have gone above and beyond this principle, I wrote prayers, poems, and stories about my own fears and doubts, the consequences of which myself and other Americans have yet to realize. In speaking with other Americans from different parts of our country, I know that I am not alone in questioning our future.
It is my premise that with love, all things are possible, and God is watching to see if we will use our free will for the betterment of humanity or for its demise. It is my prayer that all Americans will return to God and stop making our material needs our gods. Our differences are creating the divisions, while our similarities are disappearing, which in America is not a way to solve our problems. We need to be guided by realizing we are the “ubuntu” of the world; “I am because we are.”
We will have a better world when we love one another, not fight one another. All things are possible with love. Trying earnestly to keep God at the center of our lives, all our needs will be taken care of. As a core value of our Constitution, we must all say, “In God We Trust.” As for me, God is my center, and He allowed me to write my most personal viewpoints. To that end, He made this book possible. My thoughts became words, and my words became deeds.
Anna Hartt
