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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...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 15, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. 8 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent

Mardi Gras is over. Lent has come upon us. For the next forty days (or so), those of us who follow the Lenten tradition will be focusing on practices designed to bring us closer to God. The goal is to prepare for Easter’s hallelujah moment of rebirth. This year, I will prepare by using Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent. Lent and Contemplative...

(Un)Usual Beignets

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 7, 2024. Posted in Featured, General. 8 Comments on (Un)Usual Beignets

We went to our (un)usual beignets place on the corner of St. Charles and Milan. The parking lot was already roped off. I jumped out of the car and asked where we could park. The attendant said, you staying for the parades? I said, no, we just come here every Wednesday and buy beignets. He moved the cones and let us in. We got beignets. I...

Ten Days Puny

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 5, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 14 Comments on Ten Days Puny

Ten days I have been puny. As in 103 spiked temperature, followed by a long slow decline. The fever was a reaction to medicine. I recovered, fully enough to enjoy a writing conference in the Kiln. But the next week I spent more time horizontal than upright. Low grade fever. Constant headache. Abdominal pain. I finally decided it was a kidney stone,...