Wednesday, April 22, 2015

April 22: Writing Prompt #112-Critical Eye

Write about the subject you usually blog about as if you were a music critic.
Well, lately, the subject I blog about is whatever prompt is given for that day. Before I was doing this 365-day writing prompt challenge, I wrote about Bible verses and what they meant to me or about what I did or learned from my day.  I wrote about the many island activities I was involved in, and general frustrations with life. I wrote about my kids and memories we have made together, and whatever else was on my mind that I just needed to talk or vent about in written form.   
Unfortunately, this is not a prompt I am particularly moved to write about.  I’m no music critic, and yes, I could try to write about one of my blogging subjects while pretending to be a music critic, BUT I really don’t want to today.  Even those of us who love to write sometimes get writer’s block or come across a subject they just are not inspired to write about.  That’s me with this prompt. 
Instead, I’d like to write about where my mind has been all day, really all week and month…searching for purpose, purpose in my work, purpose with my writing, and purpose for my time here on earth. I know, pretty heavy. I want to make a difference somehow, someway, and I have been feeling a particular restlessness now to start on or at least discover what that difference is to be. 
I have many loves in my life: God, my family, working with children, journaling, yoga, dogs, discovering nature, and making each day count by helping someone through it along the way, but I don’t really know if or how these things can all come together to make that difference. Maybe they don’t…maybe I am doing EXACTLY what I am supposed to be doing, and at this moment, I think that’s probably true, but I don’t think it’s over yet…I don’t think it’s ALL I’m supposed to do. I think there is something more in the future.  I just don’t know what it is yet.
What I DO KNOW is that my job is not the dream job I hoped it would be, but it definitely has its moments, and I am content with it for you. I DO KNOW that this writing every day thing has become less of a chore and more of something I look forward to each day as it helps me process life and gives me just enough of that introverted time to keep me at peace. I DO KNOW that WA will not be the last place I call home in my lifetime (95% sure). I ALSO KNOW that we will make the most of life here as we did on Kwajalein and whatever comes next is very likely to be something I can’t even imagine now.  Most days I am excited and a bit nervous to see what is in store, although I am not always very patient in waiting for that future adventure and the answers to my questions!
How about you? Do you think you are living your life with purpose and if so, what does that mean for you? 

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