Do you have passion or energy or frustration that you don't know what to do with, or gifts that you suspect lie buried, untapped? What is just one step that you can take?
Right now, all of my energy and
passion and gifts are being tapped in to and used to their core. Something I am
enjoying and learning to balance and develop discipline, a process in it of
itself that God has been graciously teaching me. Perhaps this is the honing in on
my passions, in a sort of way. Learning how to make them work for me and simply
enjoying them and not getting too critical of what they look like or how I
would like them to be.
This writing project has been keeping
words on the tips of my fingers and thoughts in my head bouncing around and
made me feel more like a writer in the sense of the word. Knowing I have to
write makes it a little harder but the commitment makes it that much more rich.
Some of the prompts I have not
known where to start and have taken me longer to process. I have had to pray
and dig deep and really remember things I had thought I long forgotten; a
friend even commenting on how good my memory was. This made me laugh because my
memory seems to be the thing I am constantly lacking in and forgetful is
working its way up in my vocabulary. Like the text I never sent or the email
that was never written or the forms that were left at home. Unless I write
things down, they seem to disappear. But I digress.
Right now, the gifts are being tapped
and prodded and flowing in to projects like this one and the small business we are working on and of course all the other little ones that
I like to do with my children and for friends.
My creative outlets are becoming
work but I think it is in the best of ways and something I am looking forward
to continuing to play with. I have been learning to enjoy the learning process
in creativity, like the time it has taken to learn the ropes of new programs
for graphic design and figuring out new platforms for websites. It is all part of the process and not on
the exact time line I had first imagined but there none the less, being formed
and reigned in and let loose.
And only God knows how long they
will last and if there are others that will come but for now, I am savoring the
ones that are in my hands.
Here's to gifts and using them.
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This is part of a 365 day blogging series through Savor by Shauna Niequist. If you would like to blog along, whether daily or weekly, I would love to have you for the journey; be sure to link back to the post. And if you are not a blogger, you can join along, too. Just leave your response and answers in the comments.
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