I’ve given birth twice through cesarean section, once in active labor and emergency, once scheduled and chill. What I know is that at a time determined by baby and body, there is no choice. The pressure and instinct and deep need to push arrives on its own schedule. It is just something you know. After 9ish months of waiting, care, dreaming and planning, it’s time.

This is how I feel about songwriting and sharing songs already written in this season. I can’t not do it. It is a deep calling that must be obeyed. It’s as natural and necessary and unavoidable as birthing my babies. After decades of waiting, care, asking for advice, dreaming, planning, I t’s time.

Just like childbirth, this journey will not be without danger. Someone will not like the song or how much time I spend writing or how I distribute it. It will also require work and maybe screaming and crying. Many of my songs are birthed from weeping. For anything to move from the wish category to the goal column, there has to be a plan. For me that means scheduled time to write, record, collaborate, and study. It means getting healthy enough to sing more. It means possibly a song being taken over by a new artist (which feels a bit like I imagine surrogacy might).

Whatever the results, in the end, I must write. The songs must be birthed. It’s time.

Is there something God is calling you to do that you know has to happen? What is it time for you to do?