This past week, I had been feeling especially anxious about my life and the direction that I wanted it to go in. I want to write...! I want to spend my days living among words and getting lost in language. My life isn't like that right now and while I know that it can be, sometimes, the details of life make you forget that.
I spent my Tuesday lunch hour in the Notre Dame Cathedral...listening...being still and praying for some guidance and direction. Life is short and it needs to be lived passionately and with fulfillment. I asked God for some kind of sign that I was going in the right direction.
When I awoke on Wednesday morning, I noticed a lot of unusual visitors to my site. After a little bit of digging, I was amazed to discover that Sarah Susanka, the author of The Not So Big Life, a book that I am currently reading, had posted a link to my blog from her website!!!
I can only assume that she had found my post inspired by her book and that God was clearly checking his email that day!! I was astounded...thrilled...grateful!
I emailed Ms. Susanka later that day to thank her and just last night, I received an email back from a representative of her studio to say that they felt "my writing talent was very apparent" and that, of the many blogs out there mentioning their book, mine was one of their favourites!!
She also continued to provide some beautiful insight and advice regarding the art of writing and a life spent doing so.
Thank you Ms. Susanka and Ms. St. Hilaire for making my day! Your timing was impeccable!!
Thank you Steve, Anne, Nadia, Marie, Christina, Julie & Russ for your encouragement and unwavering confidence this week!
And thank you God for remembering me in, what I can only imagine to be, a very hectic schedual!!
Amen!
I spent my Tuesday lunch hour in the Notre Dame Cathedral...listening...being still and praying for some guidance and direction. Life is short and it needs to be lived passionately and with fulfillment. I asked God for some kind of sign that I was going in the right direction.
When I awoke on Wednesday morning, I noticed a lot of unusual visitors to my site. After a little bit of digging, I was amazed to discover that Sarah Susanka, the author of The Not So Big Life, a book that I am currently reading, had posted a link to my blog from her website!!!
I can only assume that she had found my post inspired by her book and that God was clearly checking his email that day!! I was astounded...thrilled...grateful!
I emailed Ms. Susanka later that day to thank her and just last night, I received an email back from a representative of her studio to say that they felt "my writing talent was very apparent" and that, of the many blogs out there mentioning their book, mine was one of their favourites!!
She also continued to provide some beautiful insight and advice regarding the art of writing and a life spent doing so.
Thank you Ms. Susanka and Ms. St. Hilaire for making my day! Your timing was impeccable!!
Thank you Steve, Anne, Nadia, Marie, Christina, Julie & Russ for your encouragement and unwavering confidence this week!
And thank you God for remembering me in, what I can only imagine to be, a very hectic schedual!!
Amen!
2 comments:
The way I have come to understand life is that "Everything happens for a reason" and that there are more mysteries in life than answers, but the human journey unfolds in remarkable ways.
No journey is a straight line, if it were we would not learn anything, but I see it more as a sailing ship where you must tack different directions at times to go to fulfill that human potential.
As for the writing; this is something you have always done, but let me make two observations as the Uncle who has archived a ton of your material going way back.
You write because you have something to communicate, and you have something to communicate because you have done something remarkable, worked long and hard at knowing yourself, and examination of life, introspection. That is the internal side. The external side is a "Go get em" attitude, Experience with that capital "E".
Wrining is not the goal, but comminucation is closer. But communication is not the goal alone, it is in the long run the message. And that dear Gen is what makes you fabulous and multidimential!
A biased input from your fan and admirer, your Uncle Neil
A sign, you just wanted a sign! And see what you got! If you can, read Nathalie Golberg book. I am still re-reading parts of it.
You go girl!
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