Life. Sentence.
October 21, 2008
I was just reading about the spaces that writers make for themselves – often a little ‘creative oasis’ wedged into the corner of a busy family house or apartment… and one of the authors, in describing her space, mentions a writing group called ‘Life Sentence’ which I think is just an awesome name for a bunch of writers!
Anyway. The phrase flipped my lid a little. It beached my whale, as it were. It got me thinking (is what I’m really trying to say)…
Being someone who loves words, who enjoys writing…I have a few phrases which I hang on to, some of which sum-up who I want to be. One of them is a line from a poem I wrote a number of years ago after hearing a bloke called Barry Kissell teaching on the prophetic nature of God and associated ‘ministry’. The ‘she’ in the poem was, of course, a real person, but the line has grown to mean so much more about my life, my hopes, my proximity to God and his will, and the ‘she’ has really become anyone who might be within ear-shot!
I was only standing close enough, that when I listened, she could hear Your voice.
If your life, either right now, or as you want it to be, could be summed up in one sentence, what would that sentence be?
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