Tweet That Skill A thorn has entered your foot. That is why you weep at times at night. There are some in this world who can pull it out. The skill that takes they have learned from Him. –St. Catherine of Siena (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and…
Category Archives: Transforming Wounds into Words
Healing
Tweet I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and…
Top 10 Posts of 2011 on Spring Snow Publications
Tweet We published our first blog post at Spring Snow Publications on February 17, 2011. As we start a new year and approach our first blogiversary, we’d like to thank our readers and welcome those who join us in the writing journey. According to our stats, here are the top 10 posts of 2011 on…
To Know the Dark
Tweet “To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. –Wendell Berry Poetry can be a safe guide, a wise presence, so you don’t…
Viewing Your Life as a Drama
Tweet What wounds did life afflict you with? Did these wounds interfere with your ego plans for your life? “. . . Jung spoke of God as whatever interferes with or obstructs the ego’s desires and intentions” (The Alchemy of Healing: Psyche and Soma by Edward C. Whitmont, M.D., p.91). Did your wound appear in…
Transforming Wounds into Words – Ann Voskamp
Tweet “If it were up to me … I’d write this story differently” (One Thousand Gifts, p. 20). Be honest. Haven’t you felt that way sometimes? It was natural for Ann Voskamp to feel that way when her first memories were of her toddler sister’s death, an event traumatic enough to send her mother to…
Softening the Heart
Tweet Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, wrote about tenderizing the heart. “Trungpa taught the Buddhist practice of bodhicitta, or awakened heart. His own term for awakened heart was ‘the genuine heart of sadness,’ which he explained as a natural and beautiful condition, the result of staying open to the full experience of life” (The…
Are You Ready to Transform Your Wounds into Words?
Tweet If you find yourself in the shower “Singing in the Pain,” then you have discovered one way of using words to express your wounds. However, if your words are from other people’s songs, then you haven’t yet transformed your wounds into your own words. In order to do this, you must first describe your…
Transforming Wounds into Words of Encouragement
Tweet “Transform Your Wounds into Words” Word-Art Freebie In his post “A Question of Heart,” Terry said: “Transform your wounds into words. Write for the world.” I think I’m doing that. I felt called to start blogging a little over a year ago at Raising Figure Skaters. Figure-Skating Wounds Although I also blog through Living Montessori…
A Question of Heart
Tweet “A gifted young woman writes a poem. It is rejected. She does not write another for perhaps two years, perhaps all her life” (If You Want To Write by Brenda Ueland, p.8). Are all writers this sensitive? Maybe. Maybe not. Is this even the right question to be asking? One answer that Ueland has…
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