Dear ,
How will you make sacred time today? There are many ways to experience and prepare for sacred time each days. We can participate in the sacred by setting time apart and by being present to whatever happens.
This week Rev. Betsy Turner shares her experience as a pastor of the sacred time she's found at the Writing Table.
Sacred Time at the Writing Table
I found my way to
the Writing Table in the early days, during the lockdown part of the pandemic. I was at home, pastoring my church remotely, recording worship with only my dear spouse for tech
support. And I was shepherding my children through virtual third grade and kindergarten, with a toddler underfoot.
When I say that the Writing Table saved me in that season, I’m not exaggerating. The Writing Table was colleagues and community in the midst of intense isolation. It was grounding in the midst of deep overwhelm and exhaustion. And it was a structure for writing at a time when everything,
especially creative work, felt daunting.
In that season, and across the time since, this hour set aside in the morning to gather, breathe, write, and share strategies together has become sacred
time.
Supportive Community
During my years at the Writing Table, I’ve met university professors and seminary academics, scientists, book authors, bloggers, PhD candidates. I’ve watched people move through the stages of publication, from an idea to a draft to proposal to
edits to publication. Some of those books my friends have written are on my shelves. Several have acknowledgments citing the Writing Table as a support that helped that book come into
being. What an incredible gift to be some small part of supporting creative work like that!
