HSLC Writing Group: August 2012

Write Now!

This blog started as a 'Lenten Writing Project', where we wrote each day in Lent. Now that Summer is here, let's keep up the discipline of writing with a weekly writing challenge! A prompt will be posted each week and anyone is welcome to join in and post their writing here or participate just by reading it.

Every writer has their own special light to add to this blog and all of your writing offerings are appreciated, whether poetry, prose, essay, thoughts, lists or comments and encouragement.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Answering Evil with Prayer

What is a profound experience that you've had answering evil with prayer? How do you face it with courage and light? I was struck by the following Mark Twain quote today: "But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?"

Friday, August 10, 2012

Travel

What is something surprising you learned about yourself or your faith while away from what you normally consider "home"? Where did you go? How did the location play a part in this?

How to Post

1.) Click on ‘comments’ at the end of the prompt

2.) Add your work in the comments box and select ‘anonymous’ from the drop-down box above (don’t forget to put your name at the end of your writing piece though! Or you can comment as a different user - anonymous is just the easiest way.)

3.) You’ll have to “prove you’re not a robot” by writing the words you see and then select the option to publish your comment

NOTE: the comments capacity is 4,500 characters per comment (approximately 1 word doc page) If your piece is larger than that, just divide it up into two (or more) comments and post both. We really want to read what you have!