Words of Faith

Words of Faith

Spirit to Spirit Writing Project

The word Lent comes from an old English word meaning lengthening of days. In Christianity, it refers to the time before Easter, traditionally observed through repentance and learning. It's a season to be intentional about changing and growing. Some people give up items to create space and time for new life and habits to grow. Instead of giving something up, I invite you to try to commit to answering these writing prompts each of the 40 days of Lent. The discipline it takes to set aside time each day to reflect and write about God and your relationship with spirituality is a journey that you will emerge from with a renewed spirit. Every writer has their own special voice to add to this project, whether poetry, prose, essay, thoughts, lists, or through comments, prayer, and encouragement.

How do I participate?
Each day, a writing prompt will be posted. A prompt is a question or statement that is meant to inspire your thoughts in whatever genre you feel moved to write. Post your reflections as a comment under each day's prompt (for further instructions, see 'How To Post' on the right side of the page). It is up to you if you write, read, or pray along with us each of the 40 days of Lent or just drop in from time to time when the spirit moves you to participate. Writing regularly is a discipline that many writers struggle with and this is a way to involve that discipline as a Lenten practice. Through writing and leaving encouraging words for others in this project, we become a supportive spiritual writing community

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Heavenly!

Lenten Writing Prompt #29
There are articles, books, speakers, and mystics who have opinions on this topic. but what are YOUR thoughts on Heaven?  Who do you listen to on this topic or where did your theories about heaven come from?  Write about what you think is is like - if it is a place at all...perhaps you have a different theory about life after death...Write it all down!
Posted by at

3 comments:

  1. glowin56March 27, 2015 at 4:59 PM

    This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  2. glowin56March 27, 2015 at 5:01 PM

    Oh, and i have many opinions about Heaven, books I could write. I even had a title for one: Beyond Heaven. But this morning my first thoughts are those I'll share.

    "You Lutherans are so focused on the afterlife, that you forget about the kingdom of God here on earth." A colleague shared this thought on our way home from the VA hospital, where we were clinical instructors. It has lasted me a long time, and more often than not, I believe she was correct.

    Heaven as a place served well when my mother died. She could watch over me, she could be without pain, she could sing to her heart's content. But that was 50 years ago. 50 years of my life have been spent engaging with death and making sense of it.

    But this morning my inbox had this from Richard Rohr: "Authentic mystical experience connects us and keeps connecting us at ever-newer levels, breadths, and depths, 'until God is all in all' (1 Corinthians 15:28). Or as Paul also writes earlier in the same letter, 'the world, life and death, the present and the future are all your servants, for you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God' (1Corinthians 3:22-23). Full salvation is finally universal belonging and universal connecting. Our word for that is 'heaven.'"

    And then, my cat and dog begged to go out, and I was greeted at the back door by a beautiful sunrise, with bursting leaf buds held in silhouette, and birdsong filling the air. Heaven.

    ReplyDelete
  3. UnknownMarch 29, 2015 at 9:44 PM

    Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. See the link below for more info.


    #warn
    www.ufgop.org

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)