I heard Maya Angelou interviewed this morning on NPR, which was fantastic. My husband took the kids to church so I could grade some papers and her interview was an unexpected spiritual moment.
She talked about finding what you love and being willing to sacrifice for it. What do you love? What are you willing to do anything for? Where do you spend your money, time and daydreams? This is what you love.
She also explained that she lives life as a Christian because it asks life to be lived. To love and find joy and work hard - it reminded me of the Benedictine principals that have found renewed popularity in the past few years. Work and play. And, be grateful.
Now, I’m distracted and can’t focus on grading papers! I wish I were with my family at church…
Published April 5, 2008
in Writing.
If you haven’t already been to The Dabbling Mum now is the time to check it out! Alyice Edrich offers practical writing tips from a variety of interesting contributors and lots of fun prizes to win. I recently won some fun prizes and sent Alyice my book to use as a prize this month. Just go here and ask a question, that’s it!
Starting immediately I will begin offering an audio version of the novel The Unlikely Missionary. I will make chapters available every other week until the whole novel is complete. There will be no charge, I just ask that you let others know about this site and the novel.
You may either listen to the chapters from within each post, download from the link included in the post, or receive an automatic update by subscribing to the podcast via iTunes.
The first chapter available is the Prologue.
Enjoy!
