Today I'm joining up with a writing group over at Lisa- Jo Baker's called Five-Minute Friday where the idea is to write for five minutes flat on a prompt posted on her blog.
It’s time to silence the inner critic.It’s time to hush the voice that whines on and on about how you’re no good.It’s time to cram out the distractions and excuses and take pen to paper, keyboard to screen and write.This week’s prompt is “WRITE.”
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Sometimes we think we are in charge of our lives. We go about our business making our choices, deciding our own fate. Then something happens that makes it all too apparent we are not the one in charge. Someone connects the dots for us and that connection between insignificant moments is divine. Moments like puzzle pieces floating in chaos soup, when two pieces join and for a brief instant we see the bigger picture. A god moment.
Almost a month ago, I was lost in Internet oblivion, mindlessly clicking links, somewhat lost and feeling purposeless, both at the time, and in the bigger moment. Somehow I found the Five-minute-friday feature on "worship" which resonated, especially when I replaced "worship" with "purpose". How do we find meaning, old joys in our new life as mothers. I could see my daughters joy in writing, I used to be like her and I had lost that creativity. And then I found this site telling me to just write.
I started a blog, and I started writing. With my daughter, I am finding my voice. And the first time I come to join in on Five-minute-friday, the prompt is "write". God Moment.
And so I am.
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Isn't it amazing when things just work out like that? When you get that feeling of sincere confirmation that permeates every cell in your body that YES. This is right. So glad you're writing, friend! You have a gift.
ReplyDeleteAnd I might have to check out that 5 minute Friday thing. My degree is in English, but I feel so rusty! Writing prompts sound great.