"The sad truth," writes Richard Foster, "is that many authors simply have never learned to reflect substantively on anything."
Ouch! That's a problem for those who write memoir because personal reflection is a key ingredient.
That means if you want to write a memoir, you must learn to reflect in a meaningful, deliberate way.
Your job is to
consider,
ponder,
contemplate,
deliberate,
ruminate,
cogitate,
wonder,
mull over,
chew on,
wonder about,
think about,
chew over,
weigh,
and study
your experiences and relationships and decisions you made.
You need to make sense of them.
Spend as much time as you need to read between the lines and peel away layers and notice what you might have overlooked before.
A.W. Tozer’s quote reminds me of what Jacob said in Genesis 28:16, “God was in this place and I wasn’t even aware of it.”
Uncover your richer, higher, wider, deeper, broader story,
especially relating to what God was doing.
Discovering that will change your heart and life
in ways you can’t imagine!
There you have it, your Tuesday Tidbit.
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