Thursday, February 24, 2011

Writing the way I was created but do I

A sea like an endless book
stretching out page upon page of lives, words
of writers, poets, people, 
bloggers....
And how do you find a voice, your own,
among all the tides which set adrift
and scatter the word you would say?
Words are not our own because all things
derive spiritually one way or another
and yet in this, I am my own.
And I am His and He made me this way,
but do I know which way "this way" is?
And I string "and"s because I'm always living in the "and".
It's how I am, living one sentence to the next and finding
them all connected and....
Aren't we all an "and" in life living and adding to the breadth of who we are?
Each created uniquely different and this is how
words though same are still different, because we are.
Different.
And instead of celebrating difference a Liar makes different as something better
for someone else
better words everywhere but right where I am
and it's the trap of being someone else and never who I was born to be.
Difference gives range, casting words far
from one person to the next and no two being exactly same
and I love each way He writes through each of them, whoever the "them"s may be.
Without range, only a speck of water would be had, instead of the sea.
And there's the spice, in difference and why not let mine be differed in this word-y sea.
And yet I wonder how they are? if they are?
Not just some shadowing wave.
Most days I feel fully there--living, writing for One and only being a someone uniquely created
to live only me and write "this way" He writes me.
And I want to stand in this structure He breathed life
erected all for me and {Him}, uniquely built, Cornerstone to roof,
and write the way He uniquely pens all His Word in me
 and be different while out to sea.


I shared this at Emily's "Imperfect Prose".

6 Tasty morsels:

  1. love it. life is a string of "ands", moments strung together with this very moment connecting them one to the next. I don't write poetry, but reading your wrestlings shows me the world a little more poetically. thank you!

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  2. smiles..write the was he wrote you...different is just another flavor of divinity...

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  3. Beautiful, Tammy. I think you've been reading my thoughts this week, my struggles with writing, blogging. But, oh, the depth of what you say and *how* you've said it! Thank you for this post.

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  4. I love this image especially:

    writing for One and only being a someone uniquely created
    to live only me and write "this way" He writes me.

    Thanks!

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  5. Yes, different, myself, but like the sea what I read, listen to, mixes in, influences the taste of my water. How do I stay pure to who I am and yet recognize flavors that drift in and out? All parts of the creation process that have to be grappled with. I like your take on it.

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  6. ahhh tammy, i've battled this so much... trusting the God in me, and not craving the one I see in others... begging him to be more, and me less, all the while wanting more... sigh. i love that you address this, and with such candor and beauty. he is blessing us, through you. xo

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Let's share. Because of time-management, most days I don't reply to comments. But every precious one feels like we're at the table chatting. Sometimes they're read in the oddest of places, via my phone. And if you blog, I can assure you, I looked you up and lurked your words.