Archive for the freedom Tag

How to Write Free & Relax About It

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” – Frederick Buechner, Now and
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How to Know If You Have What It Takes in 5 Seconds

You don’t have to know if you have what it takes. You just have to know that you will take what you’ve been given and make something of that. ~ Ann Voskamp As a coach and consultant to writers, I get asked one question constantly: “Do I have what it takes?” For over 13 years, I’ve spoken at writers conferences, always repeating
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Still Loving Ya, Miley: A Final(?) Word

  Two camps. Two paths. They say that’s all there are. The low road and the high. Lovers v. haters. And hate it or learn to love it, no one gets out. Everyone has to decide. Which way will I go? The way of the world or the way of the Lord? We hear of these all our lives and
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The Writer’s Commitment to Freedom

“Spring always new forms of life, from the soul of man that is joined to the soul of stone; Out of the meaningless practical shapes of all that is living or lifeless, Joined with the artist’s eye, new life, new form, new colour. Out of the sea of sound the life of music….” T.S. Eliot Many thoughts you have to
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