on the power of showing up
note: I wrote this post in April of 2019 (pre-COVID). It's been sitting in my drafts for quite a while, but I think it's time for it to see the light of day. It's been helpful for me to reread over the past few months, especially as I continue to try to make an effort to write, and I hope it can be helpful to you, too. i got an invite to a writers' group a few months ago, and i had never felt like more of a fraud in my life. it had been months, if not years, since i'd felt like a writer. the proverbial well of words in my heart had dried up, it seemed, and i wasn't sure if it was ever coming back. i agreed to go out of a sense of helplessness—i'd identified as a writer ever since i could remember. if i'm not a writer, who am i? i told myself that it was important to show up and act like a writer even when i didn't feel like one, because even though i hadn't been writing, i reassured myself, i still was a writer. but sometimes the words f
That was such an encouraging post! Thank-you for it, Sky! :)
ReplyDeleteBtw, I love your new blog template. It's so crisp and elegant!
--Bella
Profound. I have read about three posts like this this week and I appreciate all of them!
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't, you should read "Heaven is For Real" by Todd Burpo - especially chapter 19: Jesus REALLY loves the children. Colton keeps saying, "Daddy, Jesus said to tell you he REALLY loves the children."
Isn't that beautiful? Thank you for posting about.
Hi Sky,
ReplyDeleteI like to think of Gods daily blessings as little packages of joy, I read recently on another girls blog how she loves to go through the day trying to find the little packages of joy that He leaves around for us.
Blessings,
Meggie
*sunny with a high of 75*
ReplyDeleteor 56...but I get ya. ;)
I know I find it hard to find the good things in a bad day....but God never fails to remind me how great/wonderful/caring He is.
<3