Part of the reason I don't blog, or write, as much as an aspiring writer/preacher should is because I struggle with the idea that what I have to say needs to be crafted just so... and that I am incapable of conveying my thoughts in a way that maximizes impact, yet minimizes the opportunity for misinterpretation. I have started literally hundreds of blog posts... bought countless paper journals... and scribbled endless notes and questions in the margins of more than one Bible (each, a different translation)... all in an effort to say something worth saying...
In my life, I don't seem to have this problem... I live my life as an exercise in free-association, or stream-of-consciousness... I also seem to not have a working valve between my brain and my mouth...
Yet... when I sit with pen in hand, or at a computer keyboard... my obsessive self-editing... self-censoring... prevents me from ever hitting the "submit" or "save" button...
It seems I work in reverse... I stutter when the material is prepared ahead of time... when I just "go with the flow"... I seem to have little trouble communicating...
Now... I'm at the place where I'm wondering if I have let something go "unsaid" (at least, in a recorded manner) something profound, all in my quest to say something... profound...
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In my life, I don't seem to have this problem... I live my life as an exercise in free-association, or stream-of-consciousness... I also seem to not have a working valve between my brain and my mouth...
Yet... when I sit with pen in hand, or at a computer keyboard... my obsessive self-editing... self-censoring... prevents me from ever hitting the "submit" or "save" button...
It seems I work in reverse... I stutter when the material is prepared ahead of time... when I just "go with the flow"... I seem to have little trouble communicating...
Now... I'm at the place where I'm wondering if I have let something go "unsaid" (at least, in a recorded manner) something profound, all in my quest to say something... profound...
Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. See how.
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