Friday, November 20, 2009

Scribbles and Scrambles ~ Peace Out or Actually In - Part 3




I think Kim's comment on yesterday's post concisely sums up my thoughts. But since I'm currently in ramble mode...I will continue to do so.

I blog because I can connect with others on a different level than in my day-to-day, face-to-face connections. I've discovered that I have had some pretty honest heart-to-heart conversations with folks I've never met and maybe never will on this earth.
Deeper conversations, at times, than with those friends I could drop in on right now if I felt like it. I met one of my best friends through an online critique group. And as we shredded each others' work, we discovered that what we had in common was greater than writing fiction. Others have become intimate strangers. I've had strangers contact me and ask me to pray for them. That is kind of an awesome and humbling blessing. Still others have lashed out at me. One man wrote a hate-filled e-mail that horrified me and then made me stop and remember that words have power. He was reacting to what my words stirred up in him.

I blog because I have peace and I want others to find it, too. (See, that's how the topic of peace turned into three days of rambling with barely a mention of peace.) I have peace because I have God's mercy, grace and love. And frankly, life can STINK like an outdoor garbage can full of plastic bags full of dog poo on a freakishly hot August afternoon. If I can post something that makes anybody laugh through the stink, or rethink the stink, or move beyond the stink, then that's what I want to do. Sometimes we just need to know we aren't alone on this hurtling orb. Sometimes we need to see the truth through a different lens. Sometimes we need to escape from the stink and recharge. That is what blogging has become to me. A chance to share something, anything that may make a little bit of a difference in someone's life.

Maybe that's not so far from where I started. And that takes the pressure off. I'm not pretending to be what I'm not in an attempt to impress someone who might send me a contract.

Okay. I feel better.

Serenity now. Have a wonderful weekend. The weather in Iowa is amazing. Blue skies, sunshine and in the 60's. The dogs and I walked already. I've posted my blog post for the day. I have my Bible sitting next to me waiting for me to spend a little time with it. I'm selling some jewelry tonight. Dinner is done. And the things that are sad and twisted in my little world are things I can give to my Jesus. And that is something I'm planning to do right now.

4 comments:

Kim said...

A-MEN, Kelly!!! A-MEN!!!

The Book Club Network - TBCN said...

I TOTALLY AGREE with you sister!! I'll AMEN that too!!

Thank you for sharing your heart!! It's precious!!

Nora
Finding Hope Through Fiction :D

EER said...

But KK..., you inspire me. So may times when I have little stories, incidences I don't want to forget,I think of your blog. It gives me hope, that some day I start to jot them down. Not because I want to be a writer, but just to journal how God works in hidden subtle ways, and how he can use all of us , quirks and all :)
Reading your blog makes me realize I don't have to be perfect, to capture the moment in writing. Just for the record, I have read some of your finer works and it has sent goose bumps down my spine. The story on the Newborn with birth defects...I thought you had lived it, and here it was all fiction. So keep on blogging, and some day when you have a passion that consumes you, you will have Your book. Thanks Kelly, for being YOU....and don't give up on your dream. EER

Scrambled Dregs said...

Thank you, friends. I love you all, too. : ) And I'm not planning on going anywhere anytime too soon. Just a temp-check.