The first thing I notice is that the style of writing for streams of consciousness is very different from a polished piece as my thoughts tended to jumble together, either producing run on sentences without the proper syntax that is required for formal writing, or sentence fragments lacking form that are all emotion with no higher thinking involved. This tells me that at that time my mind was relatively unfocused and I didn’t start with a concrete place such as a particular memory or …show more content…
I began to observe myself observing my thoughts and described them as bats which flit is accurate in that both thoughts and bats flit about and are difficult to grasp completely their form when in motion. The imagery then switches to light and darkness which then transition back to God and the need to trust in Him. I then wrote about perfection in a fallen world, shedding more light on my Christian background and hope of salvation in Jesus Christ. I begin writing about the future and my hope for the future as rooted in the Scriptures. Oftentimes I go to the Scriptures for comfort and hope, especially when I am really struggling or in a tough place. It makes me step back and see that maybe my problems aren’t nearly as big as I thought they were, nor are they so hard to tackle. Mostly, I find that it is fear, fear of the unknown, of falling short or the fear of sacrificing myself entirely that sometimes freezes me in place and prevents me from looking and moving