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Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Goodbye

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 30, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Goodbye

Today, with our contemplative writing prompts for Lent, we say goodbye. Goodbye to the old way of looking at the world. So long to believing in violent retribution. And, most immediately, goodbye to each other. Well, I’ll still be here, but no more contemplative writing prompts for Lent. Because we won’t be with each other tomorrow...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 35

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 26, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 35

Today’s Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 35 is inspired by Ordinary Time. There’s actually a liturgical period called that. Don’t ask me anything else about it. But it’s the in-between times. The period when no big thing is happening, liturgically. That we honor it with its own name and recognition satisfies my soul....

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 32

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 22, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 32

Just a reminder about these Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 32. I’ve done my best to offer prompts to help us see anew. That includes re-seeing ourselves, the world around us, and the act of writing. You can read more about this practice at the School for Contemplative Living website. Seeing anew doesn’t require a big shift....

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 31

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 21, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 31

I’m holding on to Saturday, y’all. By which I mean, my fingernails are digging into the wood as I try to hang onto this cliff of offering Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 31. Easter is in sight. The end of Lent is coming. (Y’all are saying, she does so much bitching about this offering, she’s not gonna get any credit...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 29

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 19, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 29

For Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 29, take a common color such as blue and write down every type of that color you can think of (navy, teal, etc). Take a second common color and do the same (such as red and scarlet, persimmon). Look at your list. Which colors are also nouns? (the US Navy, the Teal duck, the persimmon fruit). Write those...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 28

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 18, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 28

For Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 28, go outside and sit by a running water source. Or put a water video on your computer and sit by an open window. Listen. Listen. Listen. Five minutes before your 20 minutes is up, complete this sentence: When I listen to water, the divine comes to me as….. Gold foil mini-statue with key to...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 25

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 14, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 25

Today’s Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 25 is a two-parter. Take ten minutes on each question. If at all humanely possible, do not read the 2nd question until you have completed your ten minutes with the first. 1st 10 minutes: If I thought God would tell the truth, I would ask… 2nd 10 minutes: If I thought [your name]...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 22

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 11, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 22

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 22 From Father Richard Rohr: One of the keys to wisdom is that we must recognize our own biases, our own addictive preoccupations, and those things to which, for some reason, we refuse to pay attention. Until we see these patterns (which is early-stage contemplation), we will never be able to see...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 21

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 9, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 21

Can I suggest that, during this offering of contemplative writing prompts for Lent, if a prompt really doesn’t appeal to you, that might be the one to try? Our writing today at the Writing Room at 100 Men Hall reminded me of this. That which we dread—practicing sentences, switching points of view, examining our verbs—can offer the most enlightenment....

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 19

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 7, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 19

At some point during the day, pause and write one sentence in your head. Repeat it to yourself. One more time: whisper it into the world. Resume your day. (You can read more about Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent here.) Thank you for visiting, and hope to see you again soon. An image from past Lents to accompany your contemplative...