A Call to Arms: A Post on Writing

I once more apologize for the long length of time between my post. With finals, projects, and driving, I've had very little time to come up with ideas for my blog. I have however, managed to expand my writing library to include three more stories, and three more poems since the last time I posted a blog, and I feel since writing is such a big part of my life, I wish to share my thoughts on it in this post. In this post, I will mention the three main reasons for why I write. Although I am unsure if these reasons only apply to me, or to many other writers that consider themselves Christians, but I hope you enjoy this article and can connect in some way.

The first reason for why I write, is one that I think any writer can connect to, which is using writing as a stress reliever. For me, writing is the best painkiller for both physical, and mental discomfort. There are two ways writing has helped me overcome any sort of pain. The first is by facing it, and admitting that it exist; and the second is to use writing as a sort of vacation when you forget about what is going on in your life and focus on the story. For me, poetry has always been the best way for me to express my feelings. If I feel strongly about something, if I am having relationship problems, or even relationship happiness, I will always express my feelings through writing. Although at first I was unsure of why I did this, I can now understand that I do it as a means of letting everything out. If you can't tell someone how you feel, or are even afraid to tell yourself how you feel, writing is the best way for me to show people, and see it for myself. Short stories however, play a much different, yet equally as important role in stress relief. These works of writing, don't typically express feelings or emotions; instead they help me to forget the problems that may be going on in my life. When writing a story, I probably have one of the greatest mental that is humanly possible without dying. Although I doubt it's possible to die because of a writing overdose, I will probably be the first to experience such a phenomenon. When I start writing, I tend to enter into the very world and setting that I'm creating. A place where I wish I could be in since it has so much that I want. Something though, I'll write a story that makes me realize how lucky I am, and how what I'm going through, is nothing compared to what other people may have. All of my stories have happy endings, which somehow makes me feel good about myself too, and usually by the time I am done writing, my problems have been lifted, and a sort of weight has been lifted.

The second reason I write is to spread God's message. Anyone who is a Christian, will most likely know exactly what I mean when I say this since you have experienced it yourself. Some people are naturally born leaders that become pastors to help spread God's word, other write songs, others sing songs, and some will even try their best to capture God's beauty in oils and paints. I however, try to capture, talk about, and release God's message through words. This is no easy task, for it is hard to capture God in any art medium, since frankly, He is just to great to describe. But when I write, I always try to incorporate many Christian themes in them. These can range from Bible verses and references, to direct relationships between the characters and God. Like many Christian bands however, I try to make my stories relative to not only Christians, but to anyone of any faith, or lack of one, by making my reference subtle, but noticeable to people who know what they are looking for. Overall, I feel that God has given me the gift of writing for a purpose, which is to help glorify Him in any way I can, whether it be through blogs, poetry, letters, or stories.

The last reason that I write, is to make other people happy. Although this ties in closely with my other two reasons, I feel that this also should go under the more broad reason of "entertainment", since in a sense, that's what I try and write. Whenever I have a friend that is sad, I try my best to cheer them up by writing a poem or story that is specific to them and usually will tell them how important they are to me. So far I have a 100% success rate with these, since no one has ever told me that they hated the poem, but maybe they were just trying to be nice... Anyway, these poems that I will write for a friend work two ways, they no only cheer up the person I gave them too, but seeing the newly found happiness also cheers me up, and makes reminds me the reason for why I write. All I know, is that I am very glad that God gave me this excellent ability to write, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.