Posts Tagged ‘Addiction’
Spilling The Blood Of Our Wounds (#OutOfSortsBook)
Do you ever feel out of sorts?
The feeling that underneath the veneer of ‘togethered-ness’ you give to the majority of the world around you, you are ready to fall apart.
And that sense that all the certainty of what you believed – whether atheist, agnostic, or someone of faith, something doesn’t make sense? That there’s more than the certainty you once knew.
Or maybe, if you’re a Christian like me, that all the rigid rules, doctrines and beliefs you once held sacred just don’t fit with the material reality of your life?
Me too.
I’m pretty good at the whole, “I’ve got it sorted” routine. Sometimes, even, it’s a little true. But in the last few years the veneer of certainty has gone.
The more I’ve spoken about the way my faith is evolving, the more voices of disagreement I hear.
Read MoreThe Courage Of Authentic Writing
The flashing line. He sits there, in front of me. Every time I stop typing, he’s there. Waiting for me to type another letter. This flash only stops when I give in to the demand for words. And only by turning off my computer, and indeed my phone and tablet, can I avoid it completely.
But sometimes we just sit. We wait. With a white screen in front of us, and just a line.
Flashing. Waiting. Teasing and taunting us.
Many of us don’t write because we think we have nothing to say. Or we think what we do have to say doesn’t matter, or won’t be good enough, or people will think is ridiculous.
But other times, in fact, more than we’d care to admit, we don’t write because we’re scared.
In fact, we’re terrified.
Read MoreReset Your Life: 4 Secrets to Discovering Your Identity
For many years I’ve dreamed of being a published author. Like many, dream for a long time was write and publish books, and speak about those books, as my full time job.
And when I wrote my two encouragement books, this dream seemed to come within touching distance.
But there was a problem. What I forgot before embarking on this journey was knowing why I was even doing it. I didn’t even know who I was.
So I was in trouble right from the start.
When I began this journey, it was just a hobby. It was fun. No responsibility, nothing at stake. No pressure. But as my journey went on, as I became more ‘professional’, the fun went out of it. I lost the joy. My heart changed.
It’s in that moment you need to have your heart and above all your identity grounded in the right place. If you don’t, then it all falls apart.
And it did.
Read MoreHow 7 Step Plans can be Straitjackets (#MythOfNormal)
I’ve talked recently about the myth of normal in our culture, how there is a story culture tells us of what a successful, happy, life really is. I’ve spoken about the importance of discovering our own identity and being the unique person we were created to be. But there’s something more here. This myth of…
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