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Since the new year, Holly has gathered our spiritual journey posts about each person’s one little word. Today my word Reach is the featured theme.
I haven’t really settled in with my OLW yet. Reaching takes active work. It’s not a passive word. I can’t just sit back on it and wait. I have to go out there and do something about it. I want to embrace this word Reach, but on these cold wet winter days, I’d rather be lazy, curl up with my dog and rest. Exercise another day.
I stretch my sore, tired muscles.
I look at the amaryllis, now wilting.
I notice new growth, a new stem creeping up alongside the blossom.
Where did that come from?
Sometimes without us even noticing, God plants new growth.
We can bloom again.
I chose Reach for completely selfish reasons. I have a few writing projects that I am working on and others I am thinking about. I set a goal to move forward with writing, to Reach for publication. Maybe I should have chosen a braver word, like Courage.
This month a Poetry Friday blogging friend, Laura Shovan, has started a poetry project to celebrate her birthday. I have been writing a poem each day to a posted sound. This project is stretching my writing muscles and giving me a creative place to go each day. Am I Reaching? I can think about this writing as stretching, exercising, and moving my writing muscles. All a part of Reaching. Follow this link to read poems about a thunder storm sound.
Perhaps when I read all the Spiritual Journey posts about my OLW I will embrace it, feel it, want to, own it. Today, I will Reach for Reach.
Reflections on the Teche 
Margaret, your OLW has given me pause to listen and reach for possibilities. I dedicate that call to listen to you so your OLW has deep merit for me. I hope it serves you well.
Quick story for this morning: as I posted my blog, it vanished. I searched for help. I reached inside my computer. I looked all over blogger but to no avail. Determined to find my post (since I did not save it elsewhere, I quietly took a breath and asked for the Divine Breath to lead me to my post. It appeared and I am happy on this #ThankfulThursday.
Have a wonderful day as you reach for possibilities.
Reach for reach – love this concept. Our words, reach and stretch, are definitely close cousins. Wonderful observation –
“Sometimes without us even noticing, God plants new growth.
We can bloom again.”
Reach is definitely a brave word! Just as ambitious and energetic as courage. However, you can reach for peace, contentment, and confidence, too – quiet words. Reach is all-encompassing – silently, quietly growing while waiting its turn. Soon it will be replacing, stretching, blooming in your life.
I’m excited about your writing projects!