Today I’m working on a short account of someone setting fire to our home, of losing everything and rebuilding.
Long time readers and friends might have seen “short account” and registered a red flag.
I hear you. I see it waving too. Short has never been my strong suit and I don’t feel ready to summarize the experience. We all know I can write about the fire and of losing everything, but when I think about trying to tell the story cogently and well my brain hurts and I imagine it looking like the picture above.
Because rebuilding was as much of the suffering as the fire, in some ways, I’ve only begun to mourn. The story of everything isn’t finished. I don’t know where I am exactly, maybe just breaking ground.
But someone wants me to tell the story. I’m being offered a wonderful opportunity and I don’t want to squander it.
Maybe I need to look at this “short account” as a blueprint. I don’t have to actually build a house today, just write the plan for what I want it to be.
You can do it, Ali Lou! I want to see you now!
I know you can do it, too – just write as God leads and the results will bless many!