February 2, 10-noon
Cornerstone Christian Church, Wyckoff
All writers are invited, regardless of writing experience.
- Prepare to share: What are your writing goals for the next six months? They don't have to be lofty but they do need to be distinct - goals you've weighed and prayed over.
- Also, bring questions & comments from our last session about creating video presentations. If time allows, we will discuss any writing related questions.
- Members (those who have attended more than one meeting) are invited to bring work for critique. Please adhere to the guidelines on our web page.
Hope to see you Saturday,
Barbara
January's Focus Point
Memories, Goals & Vision
My first
blog post of the year addressed making
memories. I wrote that even
though we chose to make good memories (of course), bad memories will also be
made. The bad memories come uninvited, but the good memories come from intentional
effort. I want to apply this to our 2019 writing goals since we will share them in February.
When we
mesh memories and goals, my default memories are of failed goals—everything I
didn’t accomplish. My memory doesn’t readily recall the vision and good
intentions that inspired the setting of those goals. Rather than considering an unmet goal as
failure, let’s regard it as a pause.
We mustn't allow the discouragement of unmet goals to
hinder us from setting new ones or from pulling out last year's unmet goals and refreshing them. Maybe our timing was off. Maybe our circumstances were prohibitive.
Perhaps our goal needs tweaking or prioritizing. Or maybe (grimace) we need to
let go of a goal and move on. Could an old ambition be standing in the way of
fresh vision?
It’s a new year. There is no scarcity of vision—there
is always more to discover from the God who is infinite in creativity and
wonder, and eager to share with us. What will He show us this year? A new process,
genre, format, opportunity? We may step into an area that’s new to us, or dabble
in writing something we’ve not tried before, or research an unfamiliar topic or
genre—perhaps today’s presentation on Creating & Posting Video will become
a 2019 goal.
Next month we’ll share our writing goals for the first
half of 2019. Let’s talk to God about them with an open heart and ask what aspirations
He has for us. We know from the book
of John that the Holy Spirit is our Counselor—He will teach us, direct
us, supply us—and surprise us.
Takeaway: My 2019 goal is not to
make good memories, but God memories. I will seek His wisdom,
inspiration, and direction.
