writers.

"You are a writer. You get to live life twice."
-unknown.

pen it down. write it down. No matter if you don't go back & read your words for twenty years, you are penning a period of your life. A moment that someday the next generation of you will read. They will be in your attic shifting through old books & come across your words. Your words of sorrow & healing. Your words of the moment you knew without a shadow of a doubt that the man standing before you would someday be their daddy. Your words hold meaning. Maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow...but, in the years to come they will get you through hardships. They will bring you though the toughest times in your life & they will always bring you that perfect touch of contentment that you needed at that moment in time.

your penned words will remind you of people. The good & the bad. The ones that got away without your knowledge & the ones that remain standing by your side to this day. --your words will take you through time. They will help you travel back to the fondest memories you have & they will remind you of moments you wish to not relive.

Journal it, because at that certain moment, it's exactly what you needed. Maybe you needed to vent. Maybe you needed to let your feelings known, but not to anyone but yourself & the future you. That's okay, writing helps release feelings we never knew we had til we had the courage to pick up the pen.

Writing helps you escape to a world only known by you. a world where it's safe. a world where you become the most vulnerable self you've ever become. It's the place you let all your walls down & you spill open. You let the pen guide the way. you step out of your outer flesh, show off your scars, your brokenness, your guilt, --you reveal the rarest parts of you. You allow yourself those moments of complete freedom within the confines of your journal.

be free.

there are simply moments that you have to allow yourself that. just moments of complete freedom, where there are no distractions, no busyness, nothing...just you, a pen, journal & God.

journal your life. someday it might be worthy of publishing.

grace.