I read a book about the subject of writing a few years ago. The book suggested that every day that you write something and to do it each day as a matter of routine. Get up each day. Get to the place your write and just write for 30 minutes and put down whatever comes to mind. This approach is suppose to make you a better writer and is also suppose to enable you to build on what you have said and by doing so know what you want to say more clearly. The idea is that you can shape your own direction as you go by starting with whatever is on your mind or in the direction of your particular vision at that moment. Well I haven't written on this blog in a few days and that is sort of unusual. I have written some notes in one of several journals that I often write in. On the other hand a lot has happened. Our house may be selling soon. I may be finding a job soon. Then again it is hard to say. As one looks around and then attempts to determine what is happening it is often the case that we don't see clearly what is happening. I was very impressed with a thought presented about Jesus Christ by an author I really respect. He tells of when Jesus was on the Cross that below were soldiers rolling dice for his cloths.
The greatest of all human events was taking place
just above their heads.
All they had to do was look up. Instead they looked at where their self interest took them. They could not see what was happening all around them. Each day may be a lot like that event. Things happen. Things happen that are not pleasant or that really do not represent what is really happening if we were to look up.
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There is a spiritual meaning of all human acts and earthly events.
John A. Widtsoe
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