Our written words matter. Lisa Buffaloe is back this Mixing-It-Up Monday with some great affirmation. Read on! ~ Annette
Purposeful Writing
By Lisa Buffaloe
All
writers have their purpose and reasons for writing. Sitting and typing for
hours, days, weeks, months, and years, doesn’t come without a source of
passion. Perhaps ideas niggle at your brain and won’t allow you to take a
shower without jotting some idea on the shower wall. Or your thoughts and words
bubble up all the time and need an outlet.
Maybe
your writing stems from a heart-breaking situation. And even though life was
tough, God brought you through to the other side, and now you want to help
others. You can ask a million writers and come up with a million reasons. There
is this need to communicate, to share, and to connect with others through the
written word. As writers, we want to make a difference, leave a mark, and
change a life.
I
have e-mails, cards, and letters I’ve kept for decades. The words written gave
me hope, encouragement, kept me from doing something I’d regret, gave me
guidance and wisdom, or gave me joy.
Whether
someone is a best-selling author or a blogger in a remote corner of the earth,
every word written touches lives. You were created for a purpose. Write with
purpose.
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LisaBuffaloe is writer, speaker, happily-married mom, and host for Living
Joyfully Free Radio. Her past
experiences—molestation by a baby-sitter, assault, rape by a doctor, divorce,
being stalked, cancer, death of loved ones, seven surgeries, and eleven years
of chronic illness from Lyme Disease—bless her with a backdrop to share about
God’s unending love and that through Him we find healing, restoration, and renewal.
She is the author of Prodigal Nights (2011 Women of Faith Writing Contest Finalist), Grace for the
Char-Baked and a contributing author of TheOne Year Book of Joy and
Laughter.
