Writing

The Writing card invites you to put your thoughts, feelings, ideas, or experiences into words.

You don’t have to consider yourself a writer to receive this message.

Writing can take many forms.

It might mean beginning a journal, writing down your prayers, recording your dreams, exploring an idea, creating poetry or stories, starting a blog, working on a book, or simply putting something on paper that has been living inside you for a long time.

Sometimes we don’t fully understand what we’re thinking or feeling until we begin to write.

You Don’t Have to Know What You’re Going to Say

One of the easiest ways to become stuck is to stare at an empty page and believe you need to know exactly what you’re going to write before you begin.

You don’t.

Start anywhere.

Write one sentence.

Write the question that’s been on your mind.

Write about what happened today.

Write a prayer.

Write about something you’re grateful for.

Write down the idea that keeps returning to you.

If nothing comes, you can even begin with:

I don’t know what to write right now, but…

Then keep going.

You may be surprised by what begins to emerge.

Writing Can Help You Hear Yourself

There are times when our minds become so crowded that everything seems tangled together.

Writing slows things down.

When thoughts are placed on a page, we can look at them differently.

We may begin to recognize patterns.

We may discover what we’re actually afraid of.

We may realize what we want.

We may see a situation from another perspective.

We may even find an answer that was difficult to hear beneath all the mental noise.

For spiritually minded people, writing can also become part of prayer and discernment.

You might begin by asking:

Divine, what do I need to understand right now?

Then write whatever comes to mind.

You don’t have to assume that every word you write is a message from the Divine or your angels. Your own thoughts, hopes, fears, memories, and imagination are part of the process too.

Read what you’ve written with both an open heart and healthy discernment.

Sometimes the value isn’t determining exactly where the words came from.

Sometimes the value is discovering what they help you understand.

Your Words May Be Meant to Be Shared

For some people, this card may carry another message:

It’s time to share your writing.

Perhaps you’ve been thinking about writing an article, newsletter, blog, book, poem, devotional, social media post, or something entirely your own.

You may have something to say that another person needs to hear.

That doesn’t mean your words have to reach thousands of people to matter.

Sometimes writing reaches one person at exactly the right moment.

That matters too.

Don’t allow perfectionism to convince you that your words aren’t worthy of being shared.

Your first draft doesn’t need to be perfect.

Your first attempt doesn’t have to become your greatest work.

Writing develops through writing.

Begin.

Your Writing Can Be Just for You

Not everything you write needs an audience.

Some words are meant only for your journal.

Some are prayers between you and the Divine.

Some help you process an experience and can later be thrown away.

Some belong in a letter you never send.

Some may simply help you remember a beautiful moment.

Private writing is still valuable.

You don’t have to turn every meaningful experience into something productive or public.

Pay Attention to the Ideas That Keep Returning

If an idea has been following you around for weeks, months, or even years, perhaps it’s time to give it some attention.

Write it down.

You don’t have to promise that you’ll finish it.

You don’t have to know what it will become.

Just give the idea somewhere to live outside your mind.

A sentence can become a paragraph.

A paragraph can become a page.

A page can become something you never imagined when you first began.

But none of that can happen until you write the first words.

Let the Words Come

The Writing card doesn’t ask you to become someone else.

It simply invites you to express something that may already be waiting within you.

So find a notebook, open a blank document, or pick up your favorite pen.

Take a moment to become quiet.

Ask the Divine and your angels for guidance if that feels right to you.

And then begin.

Don’t worry yet about whether it’s good enough.

Don’t worry about where it will lead.

Just let yourself write.

A Gentle Question to Consider

What has been waiting inside you to be put into words?

Angel Blessings,

Rev. Sheri

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