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“You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart — your stories, visions, memories, visions and songs. Your truth, your version of things, your own voice. That is really all you have to offer us. And that’s also why you were born.”
Anne Lamott

“You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart — your stories, visions, memories, visions and songs. Your truth, your version of things, your own voice. That is really all you have to offer us. And that’s also why you were born.”
Anne Lamott

Category: The Journey

Six-Word Memoirs

George

I just finished reading Not Quite What I Was Planning. The book is a collection of six-word memoirs. It originated from a project by on-line magazine SMITH that solicited submission of peoples’ life memoir stated in six words. I first heard about the book in a sermon by Jon Weese at Southland Christian Church. You can hear the sermon here. Here are a few examples from the book:

Seventy years, few tears, hairy ears.

Born in the desert. Still thirsty.

Macular degeneration. Didn’t see that coming.

Kentucky trash heap yields unexpected flower.

Thought long and hard. Got migraine.

I’ve been thinking about my own memoir. Here is what I came up with:

I knew. I know I didn’t.

How about yours?

Been There, Done That

George 3 Comments
It is always helpful when someone has had similar experiences and they share what they learned. I have been reading Jason Zaharaides’ blog for quite some time. He is, as you will see, entering the Eastern Orthodox church. I have found his posts about his journey toward Eastern Orthodoxy interesting (Post #1) (Post#2). I thought these posts are helpful on several counts. 1) He summarizes the issues with consumer church. 2) He describes his emerging church response to the consumer church and finally he talks about the short comings of his emerging church experience. I’m not of any mind to head to Eastern Orthodoxy but I think he is right about the need for community and liturgy. I have not progressed nearly as far as Jason in my journey away from the consumer church, but I think the lessons Jason learned are very helpful in thinking about where to go from here.