Writing As Spiritual Practice

Writing has always been a Spiritual Practice for me.  When it becomes a product, a procedure, when publishing is the goal, it becomes less fun, less enriching, and before long becomes extinct.

I have a life where I am not responsible for anyone or anything except myself.  I have no schedule or anyone or anything demanding my time and attention.  I have a life that I can whatever I want of it.  I do not want to waste it.

I am responsible for my happiness and don’t need to look anywhere except within myself.  Writing helps me do that.  I am responsible for my success and don’t need to look anywhere except within myself.  Writing helps me do that.  I am responsible for what I think, feel, and want to pursue and I don’t need to look anywhere except within myself.  Writing helps me do that.  I am responsible for my relationship with God, my one true love, and I don’t need to look anywhere except within my self.  Writing helps me do that.

I often get enticed and entangled in the wake of someone else’s waves.  I don’t want to do that anymore.  I often feel fear and shame in the dignity of my own experience, my own knowledge, my own way of seeing the world.  I don’t want to do that anymore.  I want to trust in what I know and love.  I want to continue down the path I truly believe God has put me on in this life and let it take me where I need to go.  I want to follow who and what I love and be intimate with what is deep within me.

Rather than be my worst enemy I want to be my own best friend and return to my first true love of writing as a Spiritual Practice. And then follow where that leads.