- Nov 4, 2008
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- United States
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- Married
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- US-Democrat
Hello everyone,
I have a praise report to announce.
So just a little history first so you know how big this is for me. Ever since I was a young girl I've written poetry. It would flow out of me almost constantly. I would ask someone to give me a topic and ten minutes later there would be the poem. Over the years snippets of poems would come to me and I'd rush to scribble them down, leaving half written poems on napkins and the backs of receipts all the way from Montreal to Mexico. (Yeah I'm not the most organized person. LOL)
But in the last five to ten years I've been having a harder and harder time getting in touch with that creative fire, and finally maybe two years ago it seemed to almost go out. We've been through a lot of stress over the last 10+ years from moving cross country, to double layoffs, another company closed down by the FTC, moving back in with my parents, and then moving out and into his mother's house as we watched rents skyrocket beyond our means. And that last move has brought with it a world of emotional, mental, and physical stress in living with my mother in law. I won't go through all of it, but I think it just flat out killed my spirit.
In the last two years I've only written one small snippet of three or four lines. I often feel world-weary and just emotionally and mentally drained, fighting through day by day to get done what needs to be done and move on to the next demand. But I've been going through a journey of getting to know God and his word over the last few months and have been seeing some changes in me, and some, albeit small, changes in some of the heavy stresses that weigh on me.
And last night out of the blue I got an idea to start a blog about my journey, something I really don't have time to do but it kept nagging at me. Today, the gates of creativity have opened again! Poems are starting to pop into my head again. I had to jump up from a nap to catch a few lines that were running through my head and it's been on and off all day. Tonight, I finished my first poem in years.
Not that I'm such a great poet mind you, but it's something that's been a part of who I am and I was missing it very much. Thank you Lord for starting a transformation in me, and for slowly helping me re-find my joy. Amen!
I have a praise report to announce.
So just a little history first so you know how big this is for me. Ever since I was a young girl I've written poetry. It would flow out of me almost constantly. I would ask someone to give me a topic and ten minutes later there would be the poem. Over the years snippets of poems would come to me and I'd rush to scribble them down, leaving half written poems on napkins and the backs of receipts all the way from Montreal to Mexico. (Yeah I'm not the most organized person. LOL)But in the last five to ten years I've been having a harder and harder time getting in touch with that creative fire, and finally maybe two years ago it seemed to almost go out. We've been through a lot of stress over the last 10+ years from moving cross country, to double layoffs, another company closed down by the FTC, moving back in with my parents, and then moving out and into his mother's house as we watched rents skyrocket beyond our means. And that last move has brought with it a world of emotional, mental, and physical stress in living with my mother in law. I won't go through all of it, but I think it just flat out killed my spirit.
In the last two years I've only written one small snippet of three or four lines. I often feel world-weary and just emotionally and mentally drained, fighting through day by day to get done what needs to be done and move on to the next demand. But I've been going through a journey of getting to know God and his word over the last few months and have been seeing some changes in me, and some, albeit small, changes in some of the heavy stresses that weigh on me.
And last night out of the blue I got an idea to start a blog about my journey, something I really don't have time to do but it kept nagging at me. Today, the gates of creativity have opened again! Poems are starting to pop into my head again. I had to jump up from a nap to catch a few lines that were running through my head and it's been on and off all day. Tonight, I finished my first poem in years.
Not that I'm such a great poet mind you, but it's something that's been a part of who I am and I was missing it very much. Thank you Lord for starting a transformation in me, and for slowly helping me re-find my joy. Amen!
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