prompts – Emily Loveall

Letter from my eighty-year-old self

Post author:Emily
Post published:November 28, 2020

I'm currently going through the twelve-week course laid out in The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. It's a "spiritual path to higher creativity." Every morning, I write three pages of stream of consciousness writing to get out any blocks that may be preventing me from creating. Those chores I know I need to do, frustration at something small that happened the day before, my plans for the weekend. I usually end up forgetting about the pages one…

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Listen to Your Life

Post author:Emily
Post published:October 16, 2020

I've been reading The Gift of Wonder: Creative Practices for Delighting in God by Christine Aroney-Sine over the last month or so. The book is about recapturing the joy of God, not the "very serious, workaholic type of God" many of us are used to hearing about in church. At the end of each chapter, she has a small practice for the reader to participate in to tangibly connect with joy, imagination, playfulness, and more things that…

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15 Journal Prompts for Spirituality and Mindfulness

Post author:Emily
Post published:September 19, 2020

I love Joan Didion's quote, "I don't know what I think until I write it down." I find writing, and especially journaling, a great tool to form actual ideas and thoughts from the mass of swirling emotions, memories, and images in my mind. Do you journal? I encourage you to try it today. It's a helpful tool to get in touch with and process your emotions. In our search for mindfulness, writing things down can bring your…