Daily Nourishment for The Third Monday of Advent: Writing the Unexpressed with Guidance from Erik Fuhrer
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 45 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .
-Jane Kenyon
Pause.
Read Jane Kenyon’s poem, “Briefly it Enters and Briefly Speaks.”
Prompt.
Write for five minutes to someone or something (this can be an object, an animal, or a particular place) that you spiritually or emotionally hold close to you, but is not physically near to you.
What would you like to say or be able to speak to or do with this person, place, or thing that you can’t express directly because of the distance?
Don’t worry if the writing gets messy or meanders. Let it flow naturally. If you end up switching who or what you are writing to in the middle of the exercise, no worries. Let it happen.
Practice.
Think of the subject of your writing at least once more today. If the subject you wrote to could write back to you, what do you think it would say? Journal about this question for three minutes.
Make It Advent:
What would tgis subject tell you about Advent so far this year? What about the coming season of Christmastide?
Want More?
Read this article on writing letters meant not to be sent.
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—Advent Resources: Throughout Advent, I’ll include a new resource most days. For today, here’s an Advent Webinar with Lauren F. Winner from 2023 on the theme “How the Weary World Rejoices.”
Today’s throwback Daily Nourishment was originally provided by Erik Fuhrer before we were posting Daily Nourishment on the website. Learn More about Erik and their work here.
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