Communication is a Journey

What is it inside authors that makes them sit for months on end living inside their thoughts putting pen to paper? Because they love to communicate? Because they are full of words which are bubbling up and longing to be poured out? Maybe its because they are full of a cause or are angered by a situation and need to vent. Whatever the reason, writing is a challenge. Communication has always been my challenge. I was born into a family who didn't communicate well and I had no idea how to even evaluate my thoughts. I didn't even know what I thought! Just like the chicken inside the egg pecking to escape its confines, so has my journey to communicate been. The mind and heart have always longed to grow, to contemplate, to express - to communicate. But how? Something happened in my life which uncorked the bottle and opened up my entire being. My life did a 180 degree turn. I went from a shy, closed up, shrivelled brain dead person to someone with a brain and a heart and a thirst to learn. Does it sound like the Scarecrow and the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz? No, not quite. Honestly, Someone came into my life - actually love came into my life. That's what they always say about love isn't it? But this is different - God came into my life and everything changed. There is a scripture which says "he will take the heart of stone out of you and give you a heart of flesh". This is what happened. He took the cold, lifeless, stony, sin encumbered heart and gave me a brand new clean heart. He breathed life into me. I became a new being and with it my mind and heart suddenly opened and the journey to communicate began.