Today’s Prompt: Write about a great delight. It has been a spiritual challenge for me to reflect on the word delight today. Today I’ve felt much more pensive, even sad, than I have delighted. Today there was a hearing in Austin about licensing family detention centers as child-care facilities. It felt so sad to […]
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Today’s Prompt: Write about a time when you were fearless. This is one of those prompts that has me staring at the screen, blankly. The times that people have called me fearless have been the times I’ve been the most scared. My friend Kyndall taught me a lot about the relationship between fear and strength.
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Today’s Prompt: Write about something hopeful or hopeless. I can’t remember who said recently “this advent seems particularly dark,” but I agree. So many things on the news. Lots of emotion on social media. Worries. Fears. Our family has been burdened this week by the suffering of friends in Colombia. I’ve been grateful for some time in
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Today’s Prompt: Write about what the word solo means to you. Some things we do alone… solo. — This post is a part of the 25 days of advent writing and photos that I’m doing with my church Northwood Presbyterian Church, San Antonio. For the writing portion, I’ve just set a timer for 20-30 minutes and whatever
Today’s Prompt: Write about a time when you were restored to health or wholeness. We’re a few hours away from leaving our two day retreat with my parents at Mo Ranch. We get to see each other in person so infrequently, that we decided the best way to use the time would be to spend a
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Today’s Prompt: Write about a time when you failed to reach your destination. Solvitur ambulando is a Latin phrase that means it is solved by walking. For so many of the problems we face in life, be they physical, mental or spiritual: solvitur ambulando. I think this is one of the reasons I love walking the labyrinth
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Today’s Prompt: Write about being renewed. If you look closely, you can still see the scar in the bottom third of my pinkie finger on my left hand. I sliced my finger down to where I could see the bone (I know! Sorry!) when I was about 22 years old. It happened while trying to
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Today’s Prompt: Write about one ordinary moment that happened yesterday. I looked up from my computer when Elias came into the room. “I found your other shoe,” he said.”It was in the shoe basket.” “Makes sense.” “I’ll put it here, with the other one by the front door, so you’ll have them in the morning.” I
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Today’s Prompt: Write about something that gives you peace or robs you of it. My cell phone gives me peace and it robs me of it, too. When I’m in the store and I don’t remember what the recipe calls for, I look it up. Peace. When I am standing in line and wanting
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Whenever anyone says “I don’t know how I could ever find time to [write a book/write an article/maintain a blog] I’m reminded of the writer’s refrain: Writer’s write. There’s a similar one Ph.D. students love to tell one another when they’re writing their dissertations. The key to writing a dissertation can be summed up in
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