{"id":30433,"date":"2019-09-27T22:25:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T03:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30433"},"modified":"2019-09-27T22:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T03:25:59","slug":"briefly-im-fond-of-finding-new-ways-to-express-what-my-heart-needs-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30433","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: I\u2019m fond of finding new ways to express what my heart needs to say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I learned to write, my words were speaking purely from my head. I was a smart kid and I thought I knew everything. I learned to write well enough to express my ideas. Then I learned to write factual news and sports and features in a style which newspapers wanted. But something odd eventually happened. About seven or eight years ago, I learned to be vulnerable and open \u2014 and the words I wrote started coming from my heart instead. That was transformative for me. But while the head is satisfied to make a point strongly one time and move on, the heart needs to keep speaking, over and over, as its emotional depth runs over. Because of this, I constantly find my heart needing to express love and longing and hope and other things, but I find that I\u2019ve said these things before \u2014 and I can\u2019t imagine someone wants to hear them again. Then I remember the words to a beautiful song by Terry Scott Taylor about speaking truth from the heart. He wrote, \u201cLove is a question mark.\u00a0Life\u2019s in a shadow box.\u00a0God hides himself sometimes inside a paradox.\u00a0And there may not ever be anything here new to say, but I\u2019m fond of finding words that say it in a different way.\u201d<\/em> My heart overflows with love and need and longing, and I have no choice but to keep finding new ways to express what my heart needs to say. Again and again. Because it never goes away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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