{"id":462,"date":"2013-07-09T19:52:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T00:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2016-11-02T19:54:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:54:59","slug":"do-you-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/do-you-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you write?"},"content":{"rendered":"

{If you are a reader-not a writer-read on! \u00a0There’s something here for you too.}<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Do you write?\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Have a blog? Have you written a book? Do you think about writing a book? Have a journal by your bed? More journals full of words in the bookcase? Do you ever wonder why you write? What spurs you on? Why in the world do you have these words rumbling around in your head; tumbling out of your mouth or your pen or your fingers tapping on the keyboard?<\/span><\/p>\n

These questions, and others, started dogging me from the time I picked up a pen as a teen. I wrote out of pain, confusion and just plain frustration- like most teenagers. I was a very compliant kid, a not so compliant young woman (but only in my head).<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus the tension<\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I read books like drinking water back then and through them I discovered there was a whole world out there that I would be thrust into when I grew up.\u00a0 I wrote poems because somehow all the feelings of growing up and the knowledge those books gave to me had to be expressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

My real world consisted of an alcoholic parent and a manipulative, functionally insane parent. One who pushed me toward young men, set up compromising situations and who would turn on me when I was guilty of making an innocent comment about life in relation to something I read.<\/span><\/p>\n

I say this now because I know why I started writing and why I continue to write.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His providential protection through all those years and in all those situations where I was helpless was for a reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

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God made me to write.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I read to know words.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I write to know me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I grew up, got married, had kids, worked full time while still struggling with the thoughts rushing through my head; putting the words down on paper and typing them on the keyboard not really understanding.\u00a0 Spilling them out before the Lord because I knew He understood my life way better than I did. He still does.\u00a0I hear His Voice \u00a0through His Word.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I thought i’d share these verses because maybe, like me, you\u2019ve been writing and reading and haven\u2019t understood the way things happened or didn\u2019t happen in your life. When you look back, can you now see a moment in time when His Hand protected or redirected you?<\/span><\/p>\n

He speaks and I listen:<\/span><\/p>\n

Let the redeemed of the Lord\u00a0tell their story<\/strong>\u2014those he redeemed from the hand of the foe, those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Psalm 107:2-3 NIV (emphasis mine)<\/span><\/p>\n

But He said to me, \u201cMy grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is\u00a0enough<\/strong>\u00a0for you<\/strong>\u00a0[sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves\u00a0most effective in [your] weakness<\/strong>.\u201d Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>2 Corinthians 12:9 AMP (again, emphasis mine)<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you had similar experiences that you now know were His Providential Protection and that redirected your life?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{If you are a reader-not a writer-read on! \u00a0There’s something here for you too.} Do you write?\u00a0Have a blog? Have you written a book? Do you think about writing a book? Have a journal by your bed? More journals full of words in the bookcase? Do you ever wonder why you write? What spurs you … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[202,57,201,200],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-2-corinthians-12","tag-gods-providence","tag-psalm-107","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}