It always seems to come at the most inopportune times. When deadlines are on the table and that huge research paper is due in 3 hrs and counting. I never seem to have any ideas when the time matters most, usually just a blank page. To be honest, I don't have the words to say right now so I guess it is quite strange that I am writing a blog. Normally when I blog I have a big idea and can't seem to type the words fast enough, but not this time. I am sitting in my room with a nice smelling candle listening to music for inspiration and.....nothing.
Why do we always feel like we need to have the entire play-by-play for us to take action? We judge everything by the final product, this blog will even be "complete" by the time you read it, but it wasn't always complete. Teachers always wanted us to do a rough draft, but everyone knew we wouldn't be graded until the final copy. Other people are curing deadly diseases and helping the poor while I just "sit around". But I have writer's block...since I can't see the final picture than I can't begin the journey, right?
We always see people as complete, but are you? Most people I know would say they are far from a final copy, including myself. Writer's block is defined as "the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing." By the very definition of writer's block we can see that it is all about what we can think of and what we can imagine for ourselves. But then I guess that might be the problem. I am trying to write my story, I am trying to fill my pages with all the great things I can do, I want the best job and best future, how can I beat this block and write the best story around. While I try to write the best lines on my page, I sometimes forget it was never my blank page to begin with.
Psalm 139:16 says,
"Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."
The creator of the entire universe knows the final product. He can see where you will go and what you will do. He has filled your pages and story with amazing words and adventures, but HE wrote them. As long as we keep trying to "beat writers block" by taking our story into our own hands, we will miss out on so much of what God has for us. We can never start the story, if we are waiting for God to show us the conclusion.
I am graduating college in a few months and that literally terrifies me. I feel like I have writer's block in regards to my whole life. I am staring at a blank page of life with no job, no husband (a Christian college must), and no idea where I want to live. How can God use my page when there is nothing on it? I think this is the time God wants to use us the most. When we offer God our blank page we are not only offering up our past but we are also allowing him to write into our future. Stories, blogs, books, papers, none of them are written all at once. They start one word at a time. Following God does not mean that we get the complete play-by-play of what our lives will look like, but it does mean that we don't have to sweat over having a blank page. God will show us in time our next steps, and that is all we might get, one step at a time.
Following one step at a time is a lot harder than following a map to a destination, but writing a blog can't happen unless we start typing one word at a time.
Writer's block only limits us when we think we are the only author.
Why do we always feel like we need to have the entire play-by-play for us to take action? We judge everything by the final product, this blog will even be "complete" by the time you read it, but it wasn't always complete. Teachers always wanted us to do a rough draft, but everyone knew we wouldn't be graded until the final copy. Other people are curing deadly diseases and helping the poor while I just "sit around". But I have writer's block...since I can't see the final picture than I can't begin the journey, right?
We always see people as complete, but are you? Most people I know would say they are far from a final copy, including myself. Writer's block is defined as "the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing." By the very definition of writer's block we can see that it is all about what we can think of and what we can imagine for ourselves. But then I guess that might be the problem. I am trying to write my story, I am trying to fill my pages with all the great things I can do, I want the best job and best future, how can I beat this block and write the best story around. While I try to write the best lines on my page, I sometimes forget it was never my blank page to begin with.
Psalm 139:16 says,
"Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."
The creator of the entire universe knows the final product. He can see where you will go and what you will do. He has filled your pages and story with amazing words and adventures, but HE wrote them. As long as we keep trying to "beat writers block" by taking our story into our own hands, we will miss out on so much of what God has for us. We can never start the story, if we are waiting for God to show us the conclusion.
I am graduating college in a few months and that literally terrifies me. I feel like I have writer's block in regards to my whole life. I am staring at a blank page of life with no job, no husband (a Christian college must), and no idea where I want to live. How can God use my page when there is nothing on it? I think this is the time God wants to use us the most. When we offer God our blank page we are not only offering up our past but we are also allowing him to write into our future. Stories, blogs, books, papers, none of them are written all at once. They start one word at a time. Following God does not mean that we get the complete play-by-play of what our lives will look like, but it does mean that we don't have to sweat over having a blank page. God will show us in time our next steps, and that is all we might get, one step at a time.
Following one step at a time is a lot harder than following a map to a destination, but writing a blog can't happen unless we start typing one word at a time.
Writer's block only limits us when we think we are the only author.
