When your heart speaks, take good notes. ~ Judith Campbell
At least once weekly I instruct at least one student in at least one commanding, teacher-ish voice, "Take good notes." Good notes help a student when studying for a test or to clarify questions that might arise later in the week (if s/he decides to review any of the material!) Good notes help us remember the context of a meeting, the instructions the doctor gives us, the details of a trip we plan to scrapbook later. Good notes take us from a point of confusion to a point of clarity.
So that's what this blog is for me. A place to listen to what my heart is saying, to take good notes and to move from confusion to clarity.
Right now I'm in week two of our all-church journey and the topic is "free." If I asked any one of my students to complete the sentence "and the truth shall make you ___________" most of them would respond with "free" even without truly knowing where they've heard it because we've heard it in all contexts of society. I know where I've heard it -- years spent in church. Although I guess I've always just accepted it, it's never occurred to me that I haven't really internalized it.
Tonight while plodding through the exercises in the workbook with my husband Jay, the truth is that we are really struggling with two separate issues that have plagued us for years. Mine is that I never feel accepted. Ever. I feel separated from the continent. An island, if you will. My apologies, John Donne. "No man is an island" may describe you, but for me I feel disconnected, disjointed, separated, broken . . . un-tethered.
So for the next few weeks I'm going to explore that feeling and force myself to write about it.
