Hi Writer!
Saturday Spirit is back…on Wednesdays!
We make art out of words. Words also feed our souls and shape our world.
Today I get personal with you and share part of my story and my vision for WWD.
Grow Slowly
That’s my advice to you. It’s why there is a 20-minute block of time at the end of every class designated for you to get your writing done. When you’re trying to build a sustainable writing practice, small efforts on a regular basis add up to steady progress and ingrained habit.
Do you ever use words or phrases guiding principles? North stars that you can keep an eye to as you navigate life?
Today’s journaling question will help you identify some meaningful words and phrases that will guide you along your writing journey. It’s the perfect exercise in preparation for our goals class coming p this Saturday.
Grow Slowly is one of the guiding principles of this class. I am so blessed to be here for you as you grow as a writer.
Book
The prayer / poem that I shared with you today is from the book, Madeleine L’Engle Herself: Refections on a Writing Life.
Word
I, who live by words, am wordless when
I try my words in prayer. All language turns
To silence. Prayer will take my words and then
Reveal their emptiness. The stilled voice learns
To hold its peace, to listen with the heart
To silence that is joy, is adoration.
The self is shattered, all words torn apart
In this strange patterned time of contemplation
That, in time, breaks time, breaks words, breaks me,
And then, in silence, leaves me healed and mended.
I leave, returned to language, for I see
Through words, even when all words are ended.
I, who live by words am wordless when
I turn me to the Word to pray. Amen.-Madeleine L’Engle
Thank you for giving this gift of time to the writer within you today. Through words may you be healed, and may you heal.
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