words are my habit.
this is like the after party, the space in which we write through later epiphanies or stuff we just didn’t bother to bring up during our earlier discussion time.
if your two cents are on another blog, send the link to your post and i’ll throw it up here.
if you’d like to simply email me your thoughts, i’ll post them in full here.
all the posts related to this book will be filed just over there ———> under “A Million Miles”…fancy that!
that is all.
The writing gurus say not to write about the pain when it is fresh. By that they do not mean not to write about it at all, but not to share it just yet when your skin is still hot, when your brain is still hot. Don’t share it when you’re still on fire. I’ve […]
Every year our church had at least one evangelistic series, at least that’s what I recall. At least one. If not three. On some scale. And the best thing about them wasn’t that people were giving their lives to Jesus, although of course that’s a wonderful thing, but for me at age 7, the best thing about these evangelist series was the baptism at the end.
And I’m learning that to sit with grief (which is sometimes seemingly out of the reach of hope or any warm sentiments) is to honor our capacity to love. At some point the chest hurt eases but I’m not grabbing for that moment.
