purpose

I’ve been writing and rewriting a few lines on purpose for the last several hours, and haven’t gotten beyond a few lines. I have only recently started to try working with more intentionality when it comes to my writing, and doing a 7 day challenge has been part of that.
this week has been busy with work, visiting family, attending my spiritual direction training, and then adding in a daily post for a week – it has been challenging for me to approach writing with dedication and clarity. it was definitely more difficult this weekend than I anticipated it would be.

but I think the purpose of a writing challenge is to stretch and challenge. I chose to participate in this challenge because it was pretty open ended and we could go in any direction with the prompts that we wanted.
like a lot of things in life, we are faced with any number of choices at any given time. each choice leads to another and another, many varied paths branching from one to another, decision by decision, consequence by consequence. it doesn’t seem to be the choices themselves that make that much of a difference, but the purpose and weight we give to each one.
like this challenge, life doesn’t always come at the perfect time: but it does keep coming. we don’t always know what direction to go in, or what topic to write about, but we do have to do something.
even writing a semi-vague post about one’s purpose in choosing to write.