Awhile ago this essay was published in an obscure local paper. I didn’t think it made much of a difference in anyone’s life. Then one day a blogger emailed a reply that included these encouraging words:
“You are very right when you say we don’t have to have it all figured out and ourselves all neatly put together.”
A month later another reader emailed me these kind words:
“I appreciate what you wrote… it is encouraging to know that this is not an abnormal way to feel…”
It is nice to know a couple people were moved enough to respond to something I wrote–a blessing indeed. Then I came across a link to my essay from a blog that promotes a book titled Get Up Off Your Knees. One of the books editors, Beth Maynard, writes that
“it’s a nice piece of writing…”
And this encourages me to finish an essay I don’t want to write in a paper that many people overlook and I wonder why I should keep writing–why keep typing late into the night with the glow of the laptop screen guiding me to explore inner thoughts, doubts, questions of reality and spirituality and ritual.
Coffeehouse Junkie 