I've been following the blog "The One-Minute Writer" but haven't really ever tried their writing challenge. Why, you ask? Well, I've never been too fond of writing exercises, especially those that require "free-writing" or spontaneous writing. I'm a spontaneous person, but not when it comes to writing. I like to over-think things and make them more complicated than they need to be. But that's probably why such an exercise would be good for me, to get me out of my comfort zone and force some unexpected creativity into my writing. So, today I've given myself a challenge: complete seven days of The One-Minute Writer challenges.
Here's today's challenge: Good and Bad
People are generally neither good or bad. I mean, there's a lot of good in people, and a lot of bad. How can you really expect someone to be angelic, or completely demonic. When you look down deep inside, there's always something to contradict your previous beliefs, and to surprise you. Hopefully.
Hmmm...that sure wasn't a long time. But there's my challenge for today!
1 comment:
I agree that we have good and bad in us but I was reading a book by John Philip Newell in which he quoted Julian of Norwich who said that we are not simply made by God but we are made of God. This gives a different perspective to addressing God as Father or Mother. It becomes not a theoretical idea but it truly means that we are all born of the same substance and thus truly brothers and sisters. It also implies that my shortcomings and failures are 'to be expected' occurances that my Creator is a part of as well. I believe that built into us as with him (remember the Garden of Gethesamane scene) is the choice we make to do good or to do ill.
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