on days 33 & 34 I am ” just being ” hurry is gone and I am just being in each moment.
My back went out again in a very big way yesterday. I’m fighting discouragement. I’ve had the last month or so of feeling so good.
I’m barely able to walk. I need help and I don’t like that very well. I don’t feel like writing.
Words are not there and I choose joy for loss of words! Thanking Him because He has the plan.
Not me. I don’t want write words that aren’t from His heart to mine…you know what I mean? So – I will wait.
If you have time I would love to hear from you…your story lately. Do you write anytime or do you wait until you sense the Spirit moving you to write?Linking up over at Jen’s. My heart is anticipating hearing God speak through so many beautiful women.
Won’t you come listen?
XO,
oh praying complete healing over that out of whack back!
lately with the move i'm in a blah writing stage. i feel like everyone is probably sick of hearing about moving right now…but that's all consuming. i just miss the normal every day joys. it will come again but until then i guess moving is all there is:)
Oh—back pain is, well, it's a pain. I'm so sorry to hear that. Discouraging, indeed!
Sometimes I'm silent, if the words don't come. It's okay to be silent. In our silence, I think we find God, hear God, see God.
Praying for a stillness that brings you closer to Him.
Bless you, my dear. I bet every one of us can relate to your transparent account of The Morning That Went Really Wrong. I try to blog on a regular schedule (Mon. or Tue., AND Th. or Fri.), but have found that if I'm empty of words it's better to skip a post.
T,
So sorry to hear about your back. I'm so bad about receiving help, any kind of help…I don't like to look weak, but what I'm discovering is that people love to help, and it brings you closer to others to let yourself be vulnerable.
Now, the writing piece. I used to feel like I need to wait to write, that I needed something grand to say, but then I started writing when I didn't feel like it (good 'ol Ann Lamott says to, you know!). Anyway, what I discovered is that usually, I will have a few pages of total crap, but I always feel better, just out of my funk.
Hard to take care of kids and yourself with a bad back. Praying for a quick recovery. Glad you have enjoyed some days of feeling well.
I write whenever a seed of thought comes . . . then I develop it on paper.
Sorry your in pain today.
Fondly,
Glenda
So sorry about your back, and I pray you will feel better soon! As for the question of writing, I try to write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I always pray about what the Lord would have me write, but if I have no particular guidance or really don'tfeel a particular topic, I usually write poetry.
I find it helps keep the creative juices flowing and allows for a release of pent-up emotion, part of which may be due to my lack of clear direction.
Lately I've been writing out of a sense of personal need. An idea usually comes in a crystalline fragment that I know will lead somewhere. It just needs to be fleshed out.
Oh, sweet Tiff, I hate to hear about your back…especially since I'm married to a back magician who I'm sure could help you! Wish we lived closer…for so many reasons. Lord, please send Tiffini help. And please help her to ask and receive.
About your writing question, I write as the Spirit leads. No schedule or routine…just as He inspires. That would be no way to write a book, but it's worked well for me as far as blogging and journaling. (I still keep a pen and paper journal…do you?)
Xo,
Linsey
Cute picture and I'm so sorry about your back. I totally understand your pain…I pray it's feeling better!
So, I know this is last weeks post, but thought I'd answer. I go off of inspiration. However, I've found that I could go forever with none. So the key is to keep writing. Sometimes I have the opening line and have no idea where I am going with it, yet I just feel something stirring – like this weeks!
I pray through the writing and if it's not flowing, I wait. I want to be sure it is the Spirit and not me. 
Have you ever heard Audra Lynn's music? Cord of Scarlet is the song I am thinking of. It will make you cry. Some of the lyrics~ "O whatever the price, O whatever the cost, O whatever it be, surely you must know, you are worth it, you are worth it, you are worth it to me, O my bride…So I will go, I will go, I will buy you back, I will go, I will go, I will buy you back, you will be Mine."