New Thing- "Write Your Heart Out" Quiet Day at St. David's
Inspiration: St. David's Center for Spiritual Direction, Lent
Time: A few hours
Bottom Line: I ended up writing way more then I expected.
Reflection: Today was a very lovely Lenten quiet day and workshop at St. David's exploring different journal and prayer techniques. Here is a partial description of the day:
Writing can aid the journey of our spirit – helping to move the inward
stirring of our soul outward into our world. The practice of writing
offers us a way to express our heart songs, a beacon for our searching
souls and (sometimes) even profound insight and solutions.
The speakers offered us many great ways to use writing as a prayer and my favorite one was the "Six Word Story" which was a favorite of Hemingway. The title says it all: you simply use the limitation of six words to tell the story that you are offering to God. Mine was "Dear Lord, your child loves you."
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