Remembering and Learning.

Just rediscovered this blog and with it my LOVE for writing...I've been challenged recently by God to write and write and write but I haven't. I so want to though, so I've been trying to gradually edge into the poetic realm. I have dipped metaphorical toes into poetry's glorious waters and although I have yet to drown, my feet are certainly wet. And so my appetite is whetted for this, one of my most favourite things. I want to write with passion, fever even. I want my writing to be moving, inspired by Him, challenging-threatening perhaps. Most of all I want my writing to change people's thoughts and influence actions. ( Positively of course, otherwise this blog is beginning to sound a little like I have plans for global domination Hitler stylee...which I most certainly do not!)

I want to write about love- My Father's love, a husband's love, a love for creation, a love born from compassion. I want to write about pain and suffering and seeing beauty in that. I want to write with vigour and feeling, with complexity and with very simple words. I want to express my heart and all that's within and not come across like a tool. I don't want to look back at older things I've written and regret lost joy and emotion, instead I want to write greater things, inspired by my ever changing life and my EVER wondrous Jesus. I want to stop this post now and actually do some of that.