Writing is Healing

At least it is for me.

I can't speak for everyone else.

Writing for me was always about trying to find a way to survive whatever I was going through in life from the time I was little like 6 to 8 years old. As my doodles on paper became more words I found that when I wrote down what I was experiencing and I left what I wrote to read again later, often I could find ways to solve the problems that I had defined earlier. So, in this way God through me was healing me by making me two people (in different times) instead of just one person suffering all alone.

So, Writing is Helaing (for me) since I was little. 

In my 20s and 30s I started to write to heal not only myself but other people as well but I didn't really publish anything even online until the summer of 1999 when doctors told me I wasn't going to die. I had had to retire the previous fall because doctors told me if I didn't I would surely die that year of 1998. So, by May of 1999 they finally told me I wasn't going to die of the heart virus that they had finally diagnosed was my problem. My Cardiologist said, "Fred. You are really lucky because most people die of heart viruses before they are ever diagnosed."

He didn't need to really tell me because I already knew how close I had come to dying many many times that year. But, it was good to hear I wasn't going to die because I was only 50 years old then.

So, now it's been well over 20 years I've been retired now and I see the world completely different than I did then in many different ways.

But, I can also say the last 20 plus years have actually been the best years of my life in that I have had peace in my heart. So, I feel I have lived completely in God's Grace all this time.

By God's Grace