I have finally figured out my True Heart's Desire. I have known it for years and I have allowed my soul to find it and soak in it at times. I have made the correlation to those times being the strongest and productive times of my life. Seems simple - live your dream and you will be stronger and happier. I question why I have faught so hard to not savour each and every day in such peace and wonder. A place where my soul and spirit are at peace; growing stronger as I move forward. What happens or what do I allow to throw me off track or set me far back from where I was? Hmmm... why do people at times move away from what they absolutely love the most?
Now that I know my Heart's Desire and I have learned a path to move it forward - focus on it, nurture it, shape it, play with it and enjoy it I feel like God has breathed fresh air into my soul. Like I have finally caught my breath from chasing after what was always in front of me to begin with that I refused to see - or I refused to value. I suppose that in and of itself has different perspectives.
My favorite things to help students discover when I was teaching was the path of a "Writerly Life" and so I'm going back to what feeds my soul - writing. I hope others will choose to join me and write things that have fire. Not writing to just fill pages like most people did in school - but writing from the heart. In my thinking that is the only writing worth really doing. I know the state testing people would throw their arms up in disgust... but if you really want to know a person and their ability to write then get out of their way and let them write.
My plan is to go back through my writing teaching and my writerly life and shake it awake. Work on it. Review the teachings of some of the great writing teachers I came to know. Practice my craft while focusing on my soul and passions. I hope some of my previous students still do writing in this time and again - I know they have it within them for I experienced it. I think it is time to make people smile, cry, laugh, ponder and wander the world lost in wonder.
Take my hand and come along,
Gretchen
