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Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 9

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 24, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 9

You can read about this Lenten offering here then proceed to the Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 9: If you can, go outside. If not position yourself so you can see outside. Spend 20 minutes making a list of clues. Clues as to what season it is. Clues as to where you are on the earth. Clues to the time of day. What clues does the natural...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 8

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 23, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 8

The introduction to this Lenten offering of Contemplative Writing Prompts is explained here. Today, our Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 8 is: Take 5 minutes to list 5 beliefs you carried in childhood that no longer shape your life. Of course, Santa Clause immediately comes to mind, but there are certainly others. Don’t judge your...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 7

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 22, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 7

If you’d like to learn why I’ve undertaken to offer Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent, you can read about it here. But it’s not necessary. You can go straight to today’s prompt on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 7. . Our bodies have knowledge we sometimes ignore. Or don’t even know about. Today, sit...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 6

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 21, 2024. Posted in GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 6

If you’d like to read about this Lenten offering, click here. Otherwise, let’s jump into Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 6 In his book Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman describes standing next to his mother watching Halley’s Comet pass. Her hand on his shoulder, he felt absolute awe. He experienced the two of...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 5

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 20, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 5

If you want to read about this seasonal offering of contemplative writing prompts, you can do so here. Otherwise, just dive in for Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 5. Take 20 minutes and write about that one thing at the back of your closet that it’s really, really time to do something with. Discard. Re-purpose. Take a photo for...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 4

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 19, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 4

You can read about my offering Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent, or you can jump right in. Either way, the main thing to remember: there is no wrong way to do these prompts. Here we go: Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 4 Today, take 20 minutes and write your different names for joy. This may be synonyms (e.g., exuberance). It may...

Ode to Mud

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 18, 2024. Posted in Featured, LOVE, Writing. 8 Comments on Ode to Mud

My first love was mud. In the backyard of the pink house in Denver on the corner of a street lined with other one-story tract houses, my little family lived. Mother didn’t plant, Daddy Joe didn’t garden. The bushes were scarce and scraggly, whatever the developer had set in the ground. Untended, like three-year-old me in the springtime yard in my...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Not

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 18, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Not

Good morning. You might be expecting a Contemplative Writing Prompt for Lent this morning. But the title of this post—Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Not—tells you what you need to know. I won’t be sending a prompt today, as Sundays are not part of Lent. We did not practice Lent this way when I was a child. When I was a kid, our...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 3

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 17, 2024. Posted in General, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 3

If you’d like an explanation for this series of posts, peruse this introductory post. Otherwise, feel free to take the next twenty minutes and write on the Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent 3: For ten minutes, write what is in front of you. Use your five senses. It helps me to make a list down the left side of the page (sight, smell, hearing,...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 2

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 16, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 2

If you’d like an explanation for this series of posts, peruse this introductory post. Otherwise, feel free to take the next twenty minutes and write on the prompt: Take five minutes and make a list of compromises you’ve made in life. Now take the next fifteen minutes and write on one of these compromises. Was it within yourself...