Do You Allow the How to Keep You Stuck?

• By candidasullivan
• October 29, 2025
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Do you allow the how of it all to keep you stuck?

I’m not going to lie—I’m a little stressed out with my manuscript right now. Sticky notes and scribbles cover the pages. In my heart, I know it’s not finished. But I want to mark it complete—or throw it in the trash and move forward.

I don’t know how to make it better—or if it’s even any good. The thought of working on it today gives me a little anxiety—until I remember what job I’m supposed to do.

As long as I focus on how, I will never finish it. Honestly, it’s a form of procrastination. The truth is, I don’t know how to write a book on my own. I don’t know the outline or each step. To know exactly where it will go and how I will get there would be working in my own power.

But that’s not how I want to write—not in my own strength. I don’t know what anyone needs. I want God to write the book through me. So I have to let go of my outcome, my thoughts, and my ideas.

My responsibility in all of this is to create time to write with God. If I show up, God shows up. If I listen for His voice, I can hear it.

It’s that way with all things. God is the leader; I follow Him. Therefore, I don’t have to know the way. Most of the time, I just need to get out of the way.

When I can get out of God’s way and stop telling Him what to do and how to do it, then we can make progress. But as long as I allow my opinions and thoughts to control the writing, the longer I’ll stay in a place of aggravation and procrastination.

So as I battle the war inside of me, I remember to pause, release, let go, and let God work through me—because His way is always better than mine.

Proverbs 3:5–6 (KJV)
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.