You don't become an authority because you finally write the book, give the talk, or find the right words. Your authority already exists through everything you've lived, learned, and come to know. What you create gives that authority a form someone else can receive. What do you know now that someone else may need to receive?

Your body of work doesn't begin when you sit down to create it. It already exists in fragments. A paragraph you wrote three years ago. A list of quotes, ideas, and random entries in Notes. A workshop you taught once. A question that keeps surfacing in client conversations. An unfinished chapter hidden on your Google Drive. Something you wrote in a journal that later became part of your methodology. A conversation that inspired you or changed how you think. An idea that became a framework you've been refining. Before creating more, look at what you've already created. Then bring it into your Sacred Writing practice. Choose one fragment that still feels alive and begin there. What does it want to become?

Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend. Today's gratitude belongs.to my best friends and another weekend on their ranch for end-of-summer R&R and fun.

Kristen Valus shares that September 3 is the first 3-6-9 Manifesting Power Day of the month. Her invitation feels particularly fitting for Sacred Writing: Think it. Feel it. Write it. Express it. Then take the first step. What do you want to put into words—and begin creating—today?

The smoke is as heavy as our hearts here in the Okanagan. I've been quiet these past few days as friends, family of friends, and 20,000 people have been evacuated on the west side of Okanagan Lake. There is a provincial state of emergency in BC. Please take a moment to pray with me for all the people, homes, and animals affected by the wildfires in BC and in the Okanagan, and just south of us in Washington and Oregon. I pray no more homes and properties are lost ... 230 in the Quilpituk Creek Wildfire (west side of Vernon), and they are not yet able to access the loss in Summerland due to the Bald Range wildfire. I pray stillness in the air remains and rain falls gently. My family is safe and while life is uncertain and our hearts are sad, life does goes on even amidst the chaos. I was able to spend time with my son and granddaughter yesterday, go shopping and attend a baby shower for one of my best friend's daughter. And since I was in West Kelowna, I visited another best friend. (West Kelowna is directly across the lake from me, and the fire storms are raging out of control North and South of the their community). The lay of the land is hard to wrap your head around. Before I moved to Kelowna and worked in the Toronto office, I was so confused by all the colleges in the Okanagan. They were all named Okanagan College ... Kelowna Campus, Vernon Campus, Penticton Campus, and Salmon Arm Campus. The Okanagan Valley is a region in South Central BC where Okanagan Lake is surrounded by mountains. It is a four hour drive from Kelowna to Vancouver with two high mountain passes between us. Thank you for your prayers and thoughts. Praying your Sunday is peaceful. Some of our smoke is from the wildfires in Washington and Oregon. Where are you in the world? Are you safe? Let us bring you into our awareness and prayers.