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 Journaling
Journaling can take you to new ideas, mental and emotional places, and along a path to aspects of your self and life that you never explored or dreamed existed. I have always journaled. Well, I have droughts. Um, now for example. But even journaling dry periods have purpose. Sometimes we have to earn our hunger for creativity and expression.
Have you journaled before?
Did you try and quit...several times?
What were your road blocks? Time, energy, your pen ran
out, or worse, you thought your ideas ran out?
Some think journaling is only for those who have tremendously
fabulous ideas all day long. But journaling the mundane,
the "what I ate for dinner" monologue or the "my jeans
are tight and I still haven’t started that house project
I mentioned last week" ramblings
is surprisingly what brings us the gift of this practice.
While mining the mundane (the subject of my first series of questions),
we stub our toes on lumps that first appear to be rubble,
but when we wipe them off and give them a bit of attention&hellipwe
find that they are our own
buried treasures.
Every season, I will post some ideas to encourage your
practice of journaling: questions, thoughts, starters,
and bits from my own journaling world (once through the
drought). I pray that you will check
out these offerings every few months and reflect on the
ideas&hellipand maybe even begin the personal journey of
writing your life and digging for your
own treasures.
» Spring 2007 Journaling Exercise
» Spring 2006 Journaling Exercise |
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