Recap of our last gathering

Thank you to the ladies that made it to RS last Tuesday evening.
It was wonderful connecting with everyone again.
We started out the evening with the writing prompt "He was skating on thin ice. That's all I can say." Try doing a free write with this as your beginning sentence and see where it takes you.

We then took a little break from writing and talked about why we attend RS. What draws us here? It was amazing to hear everyone's story and realize that as different as each one of us is, there was one common thread woven through all of us. We had all loved to write when we were growing up and as life progressed and responsibilities increased, the creative part of ourselves digressed and decreased. Why does that happen? Personally for me, I was always told that a writing career is not practical. I wouldn't amount to anything or get anywhere in life with it. I should have a job as a nurse or teacher or something like that. So, as I went through school, I loaded my schedule with sciences and maths and things that did not feed my creative soul at all. And I continued my life that way, loading it with practical things and ways until I couldn't even remember having a passion for writing. However, in the last couple of years, something has been changing. God has been reminding me of these old longings and desires, and slowly, I have begun to write again.

We also talked about the "Longings Blessing" that I posted on RS earlier. After reading it aloud to everyone, I asked everyone to take some quiet time and reflect on it and what was God saying to them in it. Below is one of the writing pieces that came from it... Thank you Em for sharing it...

Hope

A beginning
at the edge of the ending.
A new direction
with the risk in the jumping.
A new perspective
from the One who walks along side us.

An awakening
of the one who was always there.
A stirring
of deeply hidden desires.
A fire
to be intimate with the Creator.
A need
to use these gifts fulfillingly.

Blessings and Peace,
Carol