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
To Find the World
ReplyDeleteAt seventeen I left my mid-western home town to find the world.
Forty years later I work with people who grew up in Ireland, Iran,
South Africa, Laos and Vietnam.
My best consultant ever for my accounting software grew up in India.
I regularly email business colleagues living in
Italy, Germany, Japan, Australia, China and South Korea.
My church recently hosted an arranged marriage for a couple
from India, who came to Seattle to study and who are very much in love.
The same congregation honors the faithful love
of a number of gay couples among us.
I have a Peruvian niece, a Canadian brother and friends who live in Israel.
At seventeen I left my mid-western home town to find the world
and by age fifty six, in Seattle, the world had found me.
Judging Filters
ReplyDeleteToo young to know enough to understand, too old to remember what it was like,
Too impetuous, too stodgy,
Too overweight, too underweight;
Too left, too right, too moderate, too indifferent;
Too religious, not religious, not the “right” religion;
No experience, over qualified,
Too one-dimensional, too “all over the place”
Too positive, too negative,
Too “stuck”, too risky
Too modest, too boastful;
Too unoriginal, too “out in left field”
Too “milquetoast”, too assertive
Too shy, too brazen
Different and the same are we all.
God gives each a good, pure heart,
Shaped the same, beating life’s rhythm, and we all bleed red.
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chuckle, Nice sense of humor!
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