Good morning…
As good friends treated us to a Braves game last week, she said, “I thought you were going to take some time off from writing your daily blog posts this summer.”
“Well, I was kinda hoping to take a break,” I heard myself say, “but blogging each day has become such an important part of my life. Morning by morning, I just kept on writing. I realize that writing is a tangible way to process myself. When I write I seem to hear God better.”
The next day, I walked and talked with a fellow writer. She shared a quote she had just discovered: “I write to know what I think.”
My friend added, “I think I write to know what I feel.”
“And I write to know the God who is with us all the time,” I chimed in.
Up in the middle of the night right now, I run across an Anne Lamott quote from her book Bird by Bird. This simple insight heightens my innate understanding. “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation,” says Anne. “They feed the soul.”
As I write out my innermost thoughts with God, some of you feel drawn to read them. Sometimes the Spirit spurs you to write me back, and I feel blessed to read your rich reflections. In this landscape of creative connectivity, our sense of isolation quietly evaporates. Our souls are mutually fed as within and among us God becomes more deliciously real.
And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It’s on its way. It will come right on time” (Habakkuk 2:2-3, MSG).
…Sue…
