Yesterday, I heard an interview with Helen Prejean, the nun who wrote “Dead Man Walking.” She spoke briefly, yet with great conviction. the sentence that made me sit up and take notice was, “To know what I believe, I watch what I do.”
A simple sentence, but a powerful one. How often do we speak for compassion, but don’t act on it? How easy to point to a fault in someone and not see it in ourselves.
The sentence was a great one, and one that makes a wonderful journal prompt. I spent a timed five minutes writing, and was surprised where it took me. Try it for yourself and you’ll be surprised to find out who you are.
–Image: Quinn McDonald. Quinn is a certified creativity coach. See her writing at QuinnCreative.com (c) 2008 All rights reserved.
Yeah, you can tell a lot about what a person believes by looking through their checkbook (a journal of sorts!). Reminds me of the title of Ron Sider’s book: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. By the way, I like the jar. We got one for Christmas – a solar powered sunlight catcher!
Quinn,
Wonderful. That one sentence cuts away empty rhetoric like a finely sharpened blade, but perhaps in a much gentler manner.
–Liz
–I sort of gasped when I heard it, then raced to write it down before I forgot it.
Hi Quinn – I just found your blog while looking for art – it’s fantastic! I hope you don’t mind, I posted your New Moon painting on my site here: http://astrodynamics.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-moon-and-other-planetary-news-this.html.
–Thanks for letting me know. I checked out your site, and confirmed my knowledge that I know nothing about astrology. I also like that the credit line says “stolen from Quinn McDonald.” So it balanced out–just what a Libra would say, isn’t it?