Love this post and these prompts! I’ve been so resistant to prompts in the past because I couldn’t see their utility, but I realized that exactly was the problem. My framing! And joy is so hard for me to write about, especially for an audience. But I think to become better writers, we need to be able draw from the wellsprings of joy. And like you said, joy is not just cucumber sandwiches… it comes from something deeper. For us as Muslims, it is from the gifts God has bestowed us with
This is just what us many of us need at this moment…so much has been lost, the grief and anger have been so overwhelming that we don’t want to and shouldn’t have to stay with them all the time. Thank for sharing and reminding me that these feelings are guests and that we must welcome and in fact invite other feelings too. We need to it with all of them, the painful ones and the joyous ones. They are indeed all blessings from the Almighty 💚
Love this post and these prompts! I’ve been so resistant to prompts in the past because I couldn’t see their utility, but I realized that exactly was the problem. My framing! And joy is so hard for me to write about, especially for an audience. But I think to become better writers, we need to be able draw from the wellsprings of joy. And like you said, joy is not just cucumber sandwiches… it comes from something deeper. For us as Muslims, it is from the gifts God has bestowed us with
This is just what us many of us need at this moment…so much has been lost, the grief and anger have been so overwhelming that we don’t want to and shouldn’t have to stay with them all the time. Thank for sharing and reminding me that these feelings are guests and that we must welcome and in fact invite other feelings too. We need to it with all of them, the painful ones and the joyous ones. They are indeed all blessings from the Almighty 💚