This morning I wrote one paragraph in my journal and thought, "Is this is all I have to write today? What am I going to do with this extra space?" After all, it's only 5am and I don't need to leave for chair massage until 8:15.
I've never done this before, but I feel called to give you an example of one of my journal entries. It makes sense to be called today because it's so short:
I'm still doing lots of book stuff/marketing Next week is a short week with the holiday and New York (for a day) so the week of September 11 is the week I get back to writing my novel. I don't have much else to tell You today.
God,* what else should I know? Use your book today to get a message from one of your poems and use the extra time to stretch.
So I opened to to a page in the back of the book and rested on page 146, the last two stanzas of Coming and Going. The last stanza speaks to me and so I write in my journal:
This is the creation story, isn't it? The beauty of ...delights and struggles - the comings and goings. Do a blog post today.
It's now 5:15am. Time to stretch!
-----------------------------------------
Now for the reflective questions which you can journal about or if you'd like to share your story, the community and I would love to hear from you! Your comment could have a major impact on someone else. Most likely it will be just the right thing at the right time for one of the readers. For me, God* wanted me to know that helping even just one person is wonderfully impactful.
-----------------------------------------
Reflective questions:
1. How do you utilize your extra space?
2. What does God* want you to know about this (ask directly, "God, what do you want me to know?")
* I use the term God as a universal term. You may decide that Great Spirit, Allah, Higher Power, Sensibility, etc. better suits you today. It is not for me to decide.
Photo by MH
Note: These posts are part of a broader call to do spiritual journaling (read more at CardinalTouch.net).
No comments:
Post a Comment