You have to DO the thing you want to do.
If there is something you want to achieve in the future, if their is something you want to experience, master, inhabit down the road….you have to do the thing now.
People get good by grinding it out.
People become experts by practice alone.
I’m people.
And I want to write for real.
So I have to write, now.
For the next several weeks, a month maybe, I plan to thoughtfully scribble something out here three times a week.
On Mondays I will be writing about something I’ve read. We will discuss some quote, passage, phrase that has reached out and grabbed my heart in some way. All manner of topics and genres will make an appearance.
On Wednesdays I will present something that I’ve read in scripture. ‘Wednesdays in the Word’ seems like a sweet title.
Thursdays will be my wild card. Nature, marriage, parenting, writing. Anything goes.
As I’m typing here, I’m thinking about what a blessing my blog has been to me. Through state changes, status changes, job changes, title changes, season changes, health changes – words have always been there to pen it all down. And the blog has been there to receive and project them. Some say blogging is a dying art. Maybe so. But for us folks who work in the unseen, unknown walls of house and home but love to lace letters together, the publish button on this thing accomplishes much.
Let’s just go ahead and dive down to the deep today, shall we?
While being all wordy and starting a type of series here, I thought I would share a quote from a book I picked up in a quaint Oregon bookshop called, The Book Lovers Treasure of Quotations.
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
I know a few people who can line words up like a freight train and dart them out in such a ferocious way that anyone standing near the rails will parish.
I also know a few people who can artfully piece words together, in a gentle and thoughtful sort of stroke, that pierce your soul in the most beautiful way – leaving you changed and admonished, but at peace.
Our words can be weapons.
But they can also be placaters.
We can use them for firing off stings, or we can use them to light warm flames of grace.
We can use them to raise hell, or we can use them to raise awareness.
We can use them to bulldoze, or we can you them to bless.
I feel like in particular, the power of a parent’s word is unprecedented. What we let fly ends up fueling the young people around us for ages.
What we say, stays.
Lord, help us.
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Back on Wednesday, friends. So looking forward to all this.
Well said. I wish I would remember to pray before I open my mouth to speak.
I like the new format you are doing. I’m looking forward to your words of wisdom, encouragement, and of seeking.
I appreciate your love for writing and jotting down your thoughts for wives, mommas, and even Grandma’s. ~♡~
Thank you so much! I’m blessed knowing that you like to read what I write! Love you MawMaw! 🙂
Ah! I so struggle with this! Yes Lord, sit on our tongues and filter us and change our hearts where needed! Blessings to you! – Kate 🙂