Comments on: Writing, my process

By: Maggie Paulus

Maggie Paulus — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:54:36 +0000

Dear Alicia,

I wish I could really tell you how excited I am that I’ve found you. I’ve been following you for a couple months now. I had asked God for a writing mentor. Someone free spirited and artistic like me that I could learn from.

Here you are. And you’re so beautiful. Your eyes are like Jesus. Just so much like Jesus. I can see His light coming out of your cheeks, even. : )

Thank you, thank you for writing and sharing your journey. I’ve been watching your videos and look forward to your newsletter each month. I’m a young momma with three kiddos, a writer and a beauty seeker.

You are sooo precious. I’m thanking Jesus for you today.

Love,
Maggie

By: Leah Adams

Leah Adams — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:00:37 +0000

‘Waiting is the main event.’ I’ve never thought of the wait before writing as the main event. It is in that wait that lots of prayer takes place. I feel like writing for me is a two ring circus. Prayer and waiting in one ring, then the actual writing in another. Both can happen simultaneously, especially if I am writing a Bible study. I can be writing on one chapter, while still praying through and waiting on the words for another chapter. Always there is prayer. It is interesting the different analogies that can be conjured up for writing.

By: Alicia Britt Chole

Alicia Britt Chole — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:07:46 +0000

In reply to Wendy Munsell. Wendy, your description sounds like a hidden, deep, pure spring is about to water lives deeply. I am so grateful for your journey!

By: Wendy Munsell

Wendy Munsell — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:28:34 +0000

Amen, to your life goal and may it ever more be mine as well!

Thank-you for sharing how you study, listen, and write.
God used prayer journaling to help me become more present to Him; revealing hidden areas of my heart and making me aware of the work He was doing to change me.

Most recently, I have begun blogging in response to the sense that this was another way He wanted to use to draw me out of hiding. I am discovering a wellspring of joy as I write with an awareness that He is drawing this gift out of me!
You may not know it but your Spirit led words have encouraged me to say, “yes,” to this avenue of expression and communication.

By: Alicia Britt Chole

Alicia Britt Chole — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:09:07 +0000

In reply to Erika. Erika, thank you for sharing. Your comments truly encourage me this morning. I was not sure if sharing my experience would be helpful for others. Thank you.

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:44:17 +0000

Wow! Your words have really affirmed where I am at right now! I have never considered myself a writer. However, I recently wrote something about my current journey with God. It’s an image I received and the words just came, I can’t really claim them as my own. I have been waiting since then to see how God wants to respond to this image. I haven’t been impatient, rather, more attentive than usual and expectant. I almost got up late one night to start writing down some words and ideas that were coming to me, but really felt that I was supposed to wait and just listen, be present, that I would know when it was time to write.

“This is what writing is like for me. This is my process: waiting in all of its glory. Waiting, for me, is not the prelude to writing. Waiting is the main event.
“Writing fuses attentiveness with expectation and being present with being treasured. Writing is simply an overflow of listening and listening is simply an overflow of love.”

I have never heard anyone talk about their writing process in this way, but this recent writing experience has me desiring to start a Commonplace Book for myself and your words are the encouragement and affirmation I needed to begin and to have faith that waiting is part of my process. The end goal is not a well written commonplace book, but practicing the presence of God day by day.