Mini Episode 7 | Finding Beauty In The Mundane Through Journaling with Leslie Leyland Fields
When you think of journaling, where does your mind go? Do you remember recording all your secret crushes in a lock-and-key-diary? Do you recall the familiar beginning of, “Dear Diary…?” In some ways, journaling feels juvenile, but also extremely intimidating. As an adult, what are the benefits of keeping a journal?
In today’s mini-episode, Leslie Leyland Fields shares with us the purpose of journaling and how the act of writing can help us learn to value our everyday lives and discover moments of grace — even in the mundane.
The Importance of Journaling:
- 2:05 What’s the purpose of journaling?
- 3:24 Learning to value our every day lives.
- 3:52 Discovering moments of grace.
- 5:05 Frameworks around the process of journaling.
- 7:22 The importance of guilt-free journaling.
- 9:00 Inviting our children into the process of reflection.
Resources And Quotes Mentioned During This Episode:
- To find out more about Leslie, check out her website
- Pick up a copy of Leslie’s copy of her newest book: Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing, and Living The Truth Of Your Life
- “Journaling is an important way of processing the events of the day thoughtfully.” @lesliefields
- “I don’t think we value the plain, beautiful, everyday moments, and we miss seeing God in those moments.” @lesliefields
- “Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” – Frederich Buechner
- “Journal prompt: How has God shown up today?” @lesliefields
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_____________________________________________________________Meet Leslie Leyland Fields:
Leslie Leyland Fields is an award-winning author of twelve books, an international speaker, a popular radio guest, the founder of the Harvester Island Wilderness Workshop and a commercial fisherwoman for four decades, working with her husband and six children in a salmon-fishing operation on a remote island in Alaska. Her newest book, Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing and Living the Truth of Your Life presents the fruit of her 30+ years of writing, editing and teaching story-making around the world. 