A Labyrinthine Journey: Soon Coming in 3-D

“See, I am making all things new” – Revelation 21:5

During last week’s Lectio Divina group, these words came alive for me.

For quite a while, I feel like I’m treading along the edge of many things in my life. There is an intuitive sense that some sort of a rebirth is approaching. Unfortunately, I have no clue what my intuition is thinking about.

Part of this is a yearning to be free from being blocked by the debilitating power of fear. I am amazed how powerful anxiety can be. And that anxiety just doesn’t simply go away. So far, I’m learning that taking steps of faith (even small ones) are the only way to live beyond the fear. So I keep trying things that can free my from the pall of anxiety.

Another piece of this is a sense of restlessness. This has been present for many years and it has no connection with where I am currently living. It is a larger sense that there is something I’m supposed to be doing and have yet to live into.

A waiting, a yearning to be remade. To be reborn.

What is being reborn?

As I said above, most of this is still a mystery to me. Yet the invitation of faith is to not wait for understanding but to begin venturing into what seems to be the directing of God.

I won’t go into all the various areas here, but one area that I’m changing my intention with is my relationship to my writing. For years I’ve been thinking that someday maybe I’ll magically become a writer. So far, all I’ve been able to create is a haunting frustration and sense of failure that this someday will never come. Over the last couple years and especially the last few months, I’ve been gravitating to books and articles about writing. One key message from all of them is the importance of moving from thinking and talking about writing to really writing even if my own uncertainties and anxieties continue.

So here I am with a new commitment to online writing.

My plan is to write each day, but to publish at least 3 times a week

I know I’ve tried this kind of a blog reboot before, but this time I’m taking a different approach. Before I was trying to write the same kind of random ideas and thoughts without a lot of intention other than to toss it out more often. The other part that is different is that it will in a different cyberspace.

This rebirth is a different kind of commitment to my writing. It is a commitment not only to quantity but especially to the quality of my writing. The words I’ve been reading lately focus on writing with the readers in mind. What will you receive from the time you graciously spend with my words.

This revitalization has three elements:

1. 1. a whole new blog related to what I’m calling 3D Living;

1. a collection of materials and resources that will build on the blog writings and become a primer source for this perspective I’m building; and
2. a larger project that I won’t be ready to announce for a couple months but I’m most excited and terrified about.

These principles of 3D living have been forming in my life and thought for as long as I can remember. They get forgotten then relearned and refined time and again. It is now time to give these ideas life beyond a collection of random notes that lie hidden in a collection of folders I carry with me everywhere.

So what does this 3D Living look like? Three words: Open, Connected, and Whole. These three words gather together the elements of abundant life:

• to be open to the work of Love and Hope,
• to be connected to God and others in a living commitment of faith, and
• to be whole in the love and peace of God’s Presence.

There is the seed. There is much more that is coming in a new place. I’ll let you know.

Soon.

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