And this has got me realizing, I am not "hurt and upset," cause when I try to think about what gets me all riled up, nothing comes to mind except for theology, which is incredibly hard to write about, cause I have too many questions.
So what can I do to cure this? I need to get my theology down to where I can write about it, which will be hard, but vital (both important and life-giving).
In the same vein, when I was thinking about writing, it seems to me that so much of writing depends upon feeling, upon unlearning numbness, upon getting "hurt and upset", as Huxley would say.
"unlearning numbness"
ReplyDeleterecapturing that wonder of which Chesterton and Lewis so often write
perhaps like Picasso, who's works went backwards--first he could paint detail and photo-like, but later his pieces were as a child's