Post any reflections you have here as we end our blog project for the year. If you would like to keep in touch, please feel free to submit your email address in the comment form on the right-hand navigation bar. We publish a book based on some of the writings in this project (with permission from each author of course) and we would love to include each and every one of you!
As the moderator of this project, I have to say that I was just moved and wow-ed by everyone's pieces this year. I enjoyed posting prompts for you and reading what it inspired you to create.
So submit your email! Some of you posted as anonymous, but if you submit your email, I can keep you in the loop on writing group meetings, our next book Spirit to Spirit (which you are all welcome to be included in), and anything else that comes up. Join our community of writers, who encourage and support each other with a nurturing spirit. We all need that encouragement to keep writing and listening to that still small voice that has whispered to each and every one of us, "write!"
ReplyDeleteThanks to everyone who wrote and for the comments. It was inspiring to write and nice to have it appreciated by such great people. I also appreciated and learned from others that posted. I am looking forward to next year! Doug Millar
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ReplyDeleteOUT OF ASHES
ReplyDeleteOut of the fires and deposits of ash, the cycle of existence in the mountain wilderness areas I am familiar with is maintained.
Vibrant, purposeful plants and animals are eventually reduced to mulch and ashes that give birth and nurture new ecosystems.
As I trek on, surviving on a planet born and sustained by a sphere of fire, breathing the air and consuming provisions from generations past, supported and loved by The Loving Spirit I call God, I am reminded that I too am part of the past, present and future mix, no better or worse than an other.
In the heat of my journey, I remember that the seeds of hope and love I give could make a difference in the next growth and I pray that my poor attitudes, motives and deeds would shrivel and be fully removed into oblivion.
“and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.” Ecclesiastes 12:7