Writing

 I first started writing and doodling in school because I was bored. It wasn't that I wasn't interested in things like History or English composition it was I didn't like being in school even though I loved to learn about new things and about places around the world and about history. So, I would doodle on a spiral notebook starting in Grade school. 

Then my cousin who was 16 died in a car accident just after he got his driver's license and I felt vulnerable as an 8 year old. After all, if my cousin could die maybe I could too. 

So, since I was an only child with only my parents and grandmother to talk to about this and because I was 8 years old I found that I could comfort myself by writing. So, this is where writing began for me. It also went along with taking piano lessons from age 8 to 16 which was another way to calm down from the craziness of the world and to make things feel like they were okay whether they were or not in my life.

So, writing became like music a way to cope with the vagaries of life as I grew up into adulthood.

Also, unlike many of you I also was dealing with near fatal illnesses like Whooping cough and a concussion at age 9 or so and then night time seizures caused by this concussion until I was 15 years old when my cranium finally grew enough to take the pressure off my brain which was causing the night time seizures.

So, I tended to be more serious than most kids were since my hold on even being alive seemed quite tenuous to me from age 2 with whooping cough and then also from ages 9 to 15 with concussion caused seizures.

However, all these things also caused me to become an intuitive in that I had to be very aware whatever I was thinking or feeling on all levels in order to monitor myself closely in order to stay alive.

Then at age 15 I asked God to come live in my body with me and he did and when I did this suddenly my seizures stopped and never returned.

So, for me, writing is healing spiritually, mentally and physically.

By God's Grace