In my experience as a spiritual director I have learned that the journal is an essential tool to bring about inner healing and spiritual redirectedness. I tell my directees that it is most important for them to get what is in their minds and hearts on paper so their eyes can see it. When they do that, components of their lives begin to fall into place. Patterns can be clearly seen. Tangles of ideas are unraveled. And fuzzy thinking becomes clear.
As a directee writes her thoughts and feelings on paper an amazing thing begins to happen. A picture begins to form. It becomes clear that there is a connective thread alive below the surface of her life that has been carrying meaning the whole way though she’s been unaware of it. That thread has woven together events, people, and activities in its effort to create the fabric of her life. This inner creativeness happens while we’re awake and while we’re asleep. As long as she only thinks about her life trying to figure it out in her head, it’s virtually impossible to see the pattern of the thread. It takes putting one’s life on paper before the picture takes shape.
Once she sees the full picture of where her life has been up until now, it is infinitely easier to see where her life is headed in the future. At that point new possibilities present themselves that were never dreamed of before. As the events of a life set themselves in order, giving perspective for the past and guidance for the future, something additional happens. It is as though previously untapped knowledge is activated so that a person is brought face to face with the meaning of her life.
Copyright 2009 Gloria Fisher.
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