Irene's Story

Writing projects come and go, such is life. Sometimes it’s sad, like when the History Radio program had to close down. Suddenly, I didn’t have to come up with four history pieces about Israel each month.
But now I had more time to devote myself to the Children’s Writing Course. It’s fantastic, and I’m learning many new and exiting things.

The two Novel manuscripts were still ‘out’ there, but I didn’t have the time nor energy to do a lot about them.

And then came the request to write a biography of Irene Levi, a 90 year old American lady who came to Israel in 1948.
I’d seen Irene in passing, but never met her.
It was a slow start (as usual), with several false starts (as usual) but when I finally got up to speed I couldn’t stop. For a few weeks on end I wrote from early morning till evening. I ‘lived’ Irene’s story (working title), and even dreamed about it.

Now the first draft is finished, and I’m exhausted (as usual), so now it’s time to relax a little and pass the work on to Irene to read through it, mark mistakes and fill in the many blanks that are still there.

It’s such a privilege getting to ‘know’ this precious servant of God, whose life is an example for young and old.

It will be a self published book, so there will be more challenges ahead, but we trust and believe that Irene’s story will touch many lives.
And it’s her and my prayer, that God will be glorified!