As long as your pen or pencil is moving across the page,
your fingers typing at the keyboard, your words flowing onto the screen or
onto a piece of paper, you are connecting with a part of yourself that is
hidden until the moment you tease it out with words.
It doesn’t matter if you’re writing poetry or prose, it’s
the act of writing that matters, the challenge of opening your heart to the
world so you (and others, if you decide to share what you’ve written) can
know what’s there and can make a connection.
Call what’s in your heart the treasure beneath the sea or
the pearls hidden within a shell that only you can find if you have the
patience to dive deeply enough and pry the shell open with a stroke of your pen, a tap of the
next key.
Whether you’re writing every day in a journal, starting a new project, or returning to
a work-in-progress, you come to the page each day, if you’re like me, in the hope of
connecting with the deepest part of your self, each word offering a chance to discover something new about yourself or your life that will help
you understand how to live fully in each moment.
If you’re writing, you are connecting with the air you
breathe, the sound of leaves rustling overhead, the taste of a peach on a warm
summer day.
You are connecting with memories and with the people around
you, with the feel of sea spray on your skin, with rain falling against your eyelids, with snowflakes tickling your lips and nose.
You are connecting with those you love who are no longer
alive and with the person you once were and the person you are becoming.
No matter what you are writing, you’re connecting with each
moment of life and with yourself as you experience life in all its mystery and
beauty.
What’s so strange and wonderful about writing is the way the
process reveals thoughts and emotions that you don’t always know you have until
you see the thoughts and emotions expressed in the words that you write and which appear on the page in front of you like gifts from the sea.
Whatever you’re writing this morning or tomorrow or later
this week, I hope you’ll persist and keep writing so you can find whatever
you’re looking for.
I hope that you’ll make the connection with the deepest part
of your heart so that you keep coming back to the page and learn more.
I hope you’ll keep writing and searching and exploring, and,
after you’ve spent time writing, I hope you’ll look down at whatever you’ve written
and discover what is most important to you.
Mostly, I hope you’ll take that first step… even if it feels like you're stepping into thin air... and find the treasure waiting for you.
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