Writing

WRITING TO SAVE THE DAY
(From Henri Nouwen's Daily Meditation for April 27th, 2008) "Writing can be a true spiritual discipline. Writing can help us to concentrate, to get in touch wit the deeper stirrings of our hearts, to clarify our minds, to process confusing emotions, to reflect on our experiences, to give artistic expression to what we are living, and to store significant events in our memories. Writing can be good for others who might read what we write.

Quite often a difficult, painful, or frustrating day can be "redeemed" by writing about it. By writing we claim what we have lived and thus integrate it more fully into our journeys. Writing can become lifesaving for us and sometimes for others too."
Henri Nouwen spent his life helping people respond to the universal “yearning for love, unity, and communion that doesn’t go away”. Is it possible to touch and taste the love of God? How can we live a spiritual life that embraces the pain and suffering of our lives and in the world, and gives us the freedom to love deeply wherever we are?

If this looks familiar, it is perhaps because I used this once before from the Henri Nouwen Web Site.