I’ve mentioned many times before my need to get out of the city and into the mountains or woods for a recharge.
Most times when I do this, I also like to take as much of a break from technology as possible also. I do, however, continue to write.
It’s interesting what changes in your writing when you’re writing from your own thoughts to yourself vs when you’re writing something that you know will be published. Maybe because I’ve been writing AND publishing for two years straight, they look more similar than you might think. If I were truly writing the deepest darkest parts of my heart, I can see why I wouldn’t want to publish those. But most things that I think in my mind are really not that big of a deal to most people.
We think that other people will freak out if they find out our inward thoughts, but for the most part people either don’t care or it’s not as shocking to them as you might think.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to speak at a retreat out in the woods of Oklahoma. At beavers Bend State Park.
Even though I was going there for a purpose, and some might say I wasn’t able to fully relax, it was crazy to me just how restful it really was. Even as I had some stress for speaking, the overwhelming joy and rejuvenation that came from being out in God’s creation is so much greater than any stress that I felt from the speaking.
I wrote while I was out there, but some parts of me prefer to keep the part that I write when I’m out in the wilderness there. Out of the last 733 days of writing, probably a good 30 of those I haven’t published on this blog. Not because they are something special, or because there’s something I wouldn’t want others to see. They simply just seem to be better in the notebook I wrote them in, rather than on this blog.
But welcome back to my regularly scheduled blogging.