Do you Journal? I do and I have journaled off and on since the seventh grade—1983 or so. My English teacher assigned us to write every day for roughly five minutes. This little exercise taught me to appreciate the time I spent writing as well as the discipline to write regularly. If you do not write regularly in a couple of months, you have nothing but empty pages.
Journaling, however, is not easy. You have to make the time to write. You have think about what to write. You also have to do the same thing tomorrow…and the next day…and the next. It is not easy.
So why journal? Sometimes I journal…just because. That is the beauty of keeping a journal. The is no one specific reason to journal every time you sit down. It is kind of like running. There are many times that I have no purpose in running. I am certainly not going anywhere, when I am running a loop. There are times that I am working up to a race—and that becomes a motivator. However, I don’t always have a race. There are many different health reason to run but I don’t think of those. I just run anyway. And that is how journaling is. There are some great reasons to journal; building the skill, reduce stress, or record your life. There comes a time when those all go away. That is when you just journal, just because.
Do you journal? If you do, keep writing. Even if you are journaling “just because”. Because there will come a day, when you look back at the filled journals and realize that you have hundreds of pages full of your writings, inspirations, thoughts, confession, heartaches, and prayer. You will understand that writing “just because” is the simplest way to build several volumes of books.
Keep writing, keep journaling…just because.
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