"The Eagle and Child" Blogs With One Voice
There are two levels of writer's hell I've known ... there are probably others, I just haven't been to them yet.
The first level of writer's hell is believing there is stuff in you worth saying that you simply can't get out. I lived in this level for five years writing my dissertation, which finally became Wealth & Beneficence in the Pastoral Epistles. I returned to this level for eight years writing With One Voice.
Somebody asked once, "Doesn't it feel great to hold your own book in your hands?"
Not really. That's simply when you find out about the second level of writer's hell: does anybody besides you think you actually had something worth saying?
Redemption for a writer is experiencing the utter grace of "connecting" with a reader. Unutterably great, inexpressibly humbling is seeing your words take hold in somebody else.
Russell Smith, presbyterian minister, "emergent neo-puritan and a witty epicurean," has been blogging his way through With One Voice of late. Yesterday he got to chapter five, "Jesus's Lament of Abandonment."
Russell "gets it": "The cross confronts us in our own anguish. It reminds us of our own fragility and enables us to worship in the midst of the pain."
For Russell's blog on this and previous chapters, as well as for his observations on everything from ethanol to Halloween, go to Russell's blog site, "The Eagle and Child."
Kudos & thanks, Russell.
The first level of writer's hell is believing there is stuff in you worth saying that you simply can't get out. I lived in this level for five years writing my dissertation, which finally became Wealth & Beneficence in the Pastoral Epistles. I returned to this level for eight years writing With One Voice.
Somebody asked once, "Doesn't it feel great to hold your own book in your hands?"
Not really. That's simply when you find out about the second level of writer's hell: does anybody besides you think you actually had something worth saying?
Redemption for a writer is experiencing the utter grace of "connecting" with a reader. Unutterably great, inexpressibly humbling is seeing your words take hold in somebody else.
Russell Smith, presbyterian minister, "emergent neo-puritan and a witty epicurean," has been blogging his way through With One Voice of late. Yesterday he got to chapter five, "Jesus's Lament of Abandonment."
Russell "gets it": "The cross confronts us in our own anguish. It reminds us of our own fragility and enables us to worship in the midst of the pain."
For Russell's blog on this and previous chapters, as well as for his observations on everything from ethanol to Halloween, go to Russell's blog site, "The Eagle and Child."
Kudos & thanks, Russell.
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