Oh, to find an Idea
About those words…
Welcome to my blog space. Where I will bring you into my world of words. It’s a confusing place and often a bit crowded with adverbs and adjectives, but it’s as real as I can be. I won’t promise to post every day. Not even every other. Words don’t always come easy and the ones I know don’t like to behave as they should (in an organized, orderly fashion). Instead they play hide and seek. It’s an adventure in which we either take turns being frustrated with one another, or we’re delighted to be in each other’s company…
I started this blog posting about my book writing adventures on the Bookmaker series, and my daily wrestle with sentences. But after I got tired of things like marketing and compartmentalization and keeping my deepest thoughts private, I started writing out my heart. I’m exploring it one nook at a time with the Being who inhabits it and calls me their own. I’m exploring that Being’s heart too – whether you call that person God or Jesus or Love. That’s what you’ll find here – to the best of my ability.
-Kerri Lynn
Head over to my latest Post:
My Own IGNATIAN CREED
(This is an exercise I did during my spiritual direction after examining the Ignatian creed that is part of the Ignatian adventure. Due to my struggle with fundamentalist legalism I needed to find a way to look at it outside the regular language of religion – to try and come to it outside of a…
Mary
. I stand at the edge of the cave, a silent presence as I watch a girl wrapping a tiny wailing baby in strips of cloth torn from her own dress with shaky hands. She’s young -so young, I think as I watch her. Just a teenager, long dark hair and sweet dark eyes. Her…
Incarnation
(a poetry exercise in which I imagine what Yahweh might tell me of the coming of Jesus) Let me tell you a storyOf magic.Of weaving.Of my Incarnation.I took strands of Spirit things,invisible things -things that cannot be cagedor defined.Things that cannot be put in a dictionary, or lexicon, where understandingis finite and finished.I gave this…
Once Upon the Ink 