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To those of you reading who write frequently and openly about your relationship/s with the deity/ies of your choice...

Have you ever been reluctant to do so? Not because you're afraid of sounding silly or people who don't need to know finding out, or anything like that, but because you're afraid that putting things into words on a journal will somehow make it all less "real"?

There's a lot that I would write, that I want to, but I've got it in my mind that I'll "lose" it if I do. So I only write about dreams- dreams are easy to write about. Or the stuff that is absolutely undeniably concrete to me.


In other realms, I'm so happy that Ferarri isn't fazed by thunderstorms.

Comments

Writing makes reality for me.

[darkfiremoon.livejournal.com]

no, not ever, making it less real? no way no how. Words are uber sacred to me, In private the spoken word is such a important thing I do not use it unless I really really mean it. But I write like a mofo....and usually burn it or drown it or bury it or some combination of it all. I am the exact complete opposite of that. To capture the experience....let me say it like this if my mind sees a thunderbolt shoot across the sky and that sparks and hour long meditation to and with Thor, writing that down affirms the experience ever more for me. I went a long time not writing this stuff down after losing so much in my own virus laden computer dramas....I oathed to make a journal, took me another two years to do so but here I am on LJ writing my soul for all to see.

I am well aware that my UPG may be insane to others but that is why it is called unverified personal gnosis...

Also omens if not written down i tend to loose the energy then it is like im asking the same question over again...what is it they say....insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result hehe.

[caletara.livejournal.com]

No, not for me. There some things I dont write about, but it is more because I'm not sure how to put them into words. But that is why I was thinking of making a specific journal for that purpose, to join my thoughts together on that specific subject(or at least somewhere to put my more wacky thoughts).

[faren-maddox.livejournal.com]

When I write about my faith, I do it very carefully. I'm never afraid of it being less "real" but I am afraid that it will sound silly when written down. *shudder* I can deal with a lot of things, but I could never believe in something I thought was silly.

[luciaofthegrove.livejournal.com]

For myself it isn't so much that the words take the value away it is just that some things are just for myself. Of course I willing to discuss in private but some things I consider to be inappropriate to just put out there for the world to read on something like a livejournal.

I am planning on getting a large hard bound book that I can record these sort of things in, track my experiences, organized my thoughts regarding my relationship with my god etc. But this is only for my eyes, or those I would care to allow to read it.

[liritsvoice.livejournal.com]

I tend not to write about that stuff in a public forum for the first reason listed above, but I find it very helpful to my spirituality to write down thoughts in a private journal. I can read through the history of my spiritual path, see how my perceptions have changed, and remind myself of what God has done for me whenever times are rough.

:-)

[marilyth.livejournal.com]

I don't think I talk much about it because of the people finding out aspect, and the other is that it's so abstract that it's very difficult to describe in any form of word.

You bring up dreams, and I used to talk about mine a LOT. I haven't recently, no particular reason. I used to pay attention to them, but then they stopped making any kind of significant sense in any way.

I had one in the past couple of nights when I found my cat convulsing because he ate something, so he was choking. Today we heard him make a strange sound, and found him convulsing under the couch. He wasn't choking, and he's ok, but that scared me like it used to when I was younger. I guess they're starting to make sense again.

:)

[chronarchy.livejournal.com]

Not really, no. But then, I've lived just about my entire life online for the past 6 years, and I'm very big into journaling for journaling's sake.

To me, putting things into words won't change their reality, and it often, actually, makes things make more sense to me.