Writing from the Spirit

P: OK, Lord, what am I supposed to be doing here.

L: What does the schedule you made say?

P: Well, it says that I am supposed to be writing, but I just threw that schedule together. I could write, I guess, but I am not sure what to write about.

L: You are writing right now, how are you doing it?

P: Well, but that is because I am talking to you, not writing.

L: Write from the same place. Why don’t you try it out before you finish today. Try freeflow writing about hunger, like you had already begun to write. What does hungry feel like? What does it cause you to do?

P: Well, I guess I could do that.

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P: I am not having much luck.

G: Patrick, you are distracted, and you are giving up after the first difficulty, and you are finding excuses to do something else.

P: Yes, I agree. I am. Why am I not motivated to write?

G: You are motivated to write. You are not motivated to practice. You are not motivated to face your failures and improve.

P: Well, why wouldn’t I be motivated to do that if that is part of the process of writing?

G: Good question. Let me ask you this, do you want a million dollars? Of course. Now, do you want to do the work it takes to earn that kind of money? It is easier when it is given to you, right? Of course, it IS easier to attain when it is given to you, but retaining is a different question. If I give you a truth with which you have no experiential knowledge, how can you identify the truth in it?

Patrick, you have a wealth of imagination within you, a wealth of resource for other men, those who want so badly to know me, and they don’t even know who they are looking for. You were created for this. When you write from who I AM in you, it is real. Otherwise it is merely fluff and as I have said before, clanging cymbals. People identify fluff easily, because they see no spirit in it. Those who you will reach will see the spirit in your writing, and they will respond to it. You are placing too much pressure on yourself to be the source. Tap into me, let me flow into you and through you.

Do you not see what I am doing? I have led you to several sources from which you will be learning to let me fill you up. From there, the result of being filled will be your overflowing and reaching those who need to drink from your life’s purpose. Your purpose is Me in you, and Me flowing from you. Failure, bah! Shake it off, and keep going. Don’t you know that my greatest men found ther greatest victories within their greatest failures? It’s what I do.

Patrick trust me. Trust the Spirit in you to do His work. You cannot go wrong with that formula, whether you write the most life changing book or whether you just find the key to knowing that I AM who I say I am. That is the point. Your part is to seek Me, and write from that search. That’s it.

Simple enough for you?

P: Yes. Not easy.