Blog : April Writing Exercise - BLESS (April 2, 2022)

 Bless 04 April Breathe Series Light Writing Photography Ingrid Williams Writes With Light Writing Prompt

What do you want in your garden? What do you want in your life? This month, use your words like seeds and plant them in "future you" and "future others."


The year's theme is "breathe," and this month's focus is "bless." I'm thinking of words on the breath that bring blessing.


  1. What would bless you? Brainstorm for 3 minutes. No need to write sentences now.
  2. What would bless others? Brainstorm for 3 minutes.
  3. Now set a timer for 20 minutes (or more) and write with the thought that every mark on your page will come to life. What do you want to see?
  4. TIP: You can write these in such a way that you can speak them. I recommend doing that and speaking them often!


Of course, if you literally want to write about the blessing of breath, please do! Or anything else that this sparks? Run with it!


When I originally chose this image, the phrase "April showers bring May flowers" came to mind. Perfect! Imagine rain coming down full of color and light as you write and saturating the ground, which becomes soft and welcomes your words. How can you bless? Maybe this month you can make it a "thing" to send blessings at every opportunity. Write them. Speak them. Silently send them. Bless! Bless! Bless! Have your paper? Get ready to:


BLESS

Ready . . . set . . . write!


PS. If you would like to have a matching notebook for each month and theme (or just your favorites), click here to see the collection.

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