8/10/2012 2 Comments It Takes Faith To Write!Despite the fact that I am a writer, a blank page can scare me. It is many times the thing that I don’t want to see. Because it’s asking for something:
My heart. It wants to hear what it has to say and the paper only wants the truth. Because most times when I sit down, I don’t know what to say. I don’t yet know my truth. Yet it is something that I know I must do because it’s the only way that I can hear myself and make any sense of the thoughts in my mind and it is one of the few ways that my heart will speak. Although, I must admit that I don’t know what I’m afraid of because I always like to listen to the song of my heart. It is truly myself, it’s comforting and it’s true. A page is only a portal to the real you. Sitting there, holding your pen you may start out with your brain – but when you have written you have most definitely ended with your heart. Yet despite this gap between where you are and where you want to be (i.e. your brain and your heart) and despite the fact that I start out with no plan only with a curiosity to know, I hop the slide right into myself and write; knowing that the right words will come despite my not knowing what they will be when I first put my pen to that blank page. And when I look up and am done – my heart is on paper. It takes faith to write.
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