Simple yet so complex.
8 years ago writing was nothing to me. Sure, I wrote thank you notes, typed emails, created to do lists. But I didn't really write.
Until tragedy struck and God told me to write my story. And so I obeyed.
And through the telling of my story, God revealed to me the real treasure in the telling…the real treasure in the telling is the writing. Writing is freedom.
Writing is the ability to process and understand what God is doing around me and through me. Writing brings forth a sunlit window that breaths life into my soul.
And if writing is freedom and to live radical is what I desire then maybe the two are connected.
To risk is right.
To tell a story is risky, especially when it's our own.
But the writing…the need to put pen on paper or fingers to keyboard? That's one of the many things my heavenly father and I have in common. He is a writer of words and a writer of stories. And I am his daughter, made in his image.
Writing. It's risky. But to risk is right.
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YES! There is so much freedom found in risking it all -- laying it all out in black and white.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm so blessed we were neighbors today over at Lisa-Jo's! What a blessing. I'm so thrilled to meet you (and now I want to hear more of your story!)
Thanks Nikki! Just made my way over to your blog a second ago!
DeleteYes, in the writing, the journaling, the scrawl on lined, tear-stained pages in spiral notebooks, there has been illumination, freedom, wisdom, as I converse back and forth with the Lover of my soul ...
ReplyDeleteLinda, I love the tear-stained pages. Thank you for sharing.
DeleteI am his daughter, made in his image. Preach it, sister. You write beautifully.
ReplyDeleteThanks girl!
DeleteI so can relate - writing for me really began after a tragedy as well - the death of my 16 yo son. And, it is risky, because not all people will relate or understand our hearts. But it's still worth writing!
ReplyDeleteoh wow, what a tragedy, I am so very sorry. But so inspired that you were brave enough to write about it. God uses the strangest thing to bring us comfort doesn't he?
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