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Give and Take
As this day draws to its close, I am firmly decided I will show up at this keyboard and create something. Sometimes, when the creativity seems to elude me because I’ve let so many other things come ahead of it during the day, I like to tempt myself to tap these keys without a lot of thought.
I like to choose a word, hop over to Spotify and put on a short playlist (the one playing right now is 13 minutes and three songs long) and give myself permission to play with words and thoughts and ideas. I let them spill out and invite them to play with me.
Today, I’m borrowing the word, take, from the Five Minute Friday community. I used to be a with the writing crew over there but it’s been a while. Today one of their posts showed up in my Facebook feed and it seemed a perfect opportunity to release my heart and mind from the day’s duties and let them run among the visual imagery in my writer’s mind.
Without further explanation, a few thoughts centered around Take:
There is something about mornings, when I take my first sip of coffee and take the first moments with Jesus, my Bible in hand and my feet propped up on the couch. In the silence I take time to close my eyes and open my heart. I pour out words that are at times jumbled and stilted, but I know God hears them nonetheless.
