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Check back every Friday for something called "5-Minute-Friday" - for more details, check out lisajobaker.com/five-minute-friday

Tomorrow will be my first time participating, and hopefully I can figure out how to post it because I have never used twitter and am still not quite sure what it is.  I am very technologically challenged.  It seems I missed the technology era by about 3-4 years and, of all the classes I took in college, not one of them had to do with computers. :)

You should try this "5-Minute-Friday" out, too!  It sounds fun.......

I continue to find inspiration in strong women all around me.  Today, I found that inspiration through a woman I have never met, who happens to live in my neck of the woods.  Lisa Jo.  As I read an article she submitted on motherhood, I realized we had a lot in common already.  And then I realized once again the connection you can feel with someone just through their writing.  Then I read an article she wrote on the importance of writing, and realized we share a common interest.  Writing is such an incredible tool of communication.  Sometimes I miss the letters my friends and I would write to one another, because I feel it was the letters that connected us most.  I love to write.  I don't always write well.  Most of the time when I am writing, it is broken up by constant interruptions (like right now as my little girl calls out that she went potty and my son hollers out to me to come look at his fort and then to come over because he wants to show me in the anatomy book where the heart is).  And most of the time when I am writing, it is with a toddler climbing all over me and trying to pound on the computer keys or steal my pen as my six-year-old asks me questions or urges me to stop because it has been the "two minutes" that I promised it would take me to finish my thought.  And then I'm so scatter-brained with all of this going on that I wonder if anyone can even comprehend what I'm trying to say. 

So, if you can figure out what I'm saying, or even if you have no idea what I'm saying, try it out.  Spend five minutes every Friday writing with me.

Every Friday, possibly at midnight when I can be alone, I will be participating in this "Five-Minute-Friday" where I follow the given prompt on Lisa Jo's web page and just write for five minutes.  No editing, no proofing, no second-guessing.  Just writing and submitting.

I read this essay, "On Why You Need to Keep on Writing" on her web page and loved it.  These are all of her words, not mine.  I decided that she said it so well, that I would just copy the entire passage and paste it here to share.  Maybe this will encourage you to write.  Here's an excerpt:

Words are a road map for those who come behind.

To write is to give. To be flat out, all out generous with your story. To wrap up your words, your life, your failings, your most miserable moments and your wild and wonderful discoveries and give them to somebody else. To share them with someone, to encourage someone, to re-gift what have been the hardest parts of your story in ways that make other people feel they are not alone.

To write is to pour out your life as a love offering for people you may never meet, because when you do so you feel God’s pleasure in your fingertips.

And maybe you were made for this time and these keyboard letters to leave a legacy. Maybe you were made to connect a family. Maybe you were made to tell the story of someone who can’t. Maybe what you whisper over your kids at night or dream in the dark hours, or doodle in your head while waiting in the car pool line is essential to somebody else.

Maybe when you write it down you will discover not only your own pleasure, but the pleasure of the God who gives you the words, the prompting and the message.

Run with it, my friend. Forget the doubts and the reasons why you think you can’t. Don’t look back – run with abandon like you used to when you were just six and discovering the joy of your own strength.

Run like you used to when you believed you could fly.

- See more at: http://lisajobaker.com/2012/02/on-why-you-need-to-keep-on-writing-especially-when-you-dont-have-time/#sthash.wBMRWkbx.dpuf