CUWP Writing Retreat

I have spent the better part of the last 2 days writing and conversing with other writers. The few of us that are here are teachers. Teachers who teach writing, love to write, and are looking for others to engage students in writing.

I started writing a story in 2009. The idea was to show my students to put pencil to paper and write. The story has turned into a love story. When I learned or remembered that I love to write, I never thought I would write a love story. However, that is the way it turned out.

Yesterday I began writing the "bad" part. It took me a long time to have the courage to write it. Life was going well for my love birds. I didn't want anything bad happen to them. So, I avoided writing. I'm having a difficult time writing now, because it is only going to get worse.

I sometimes wonder if Heavenly Father feels the same way. I realize that we can choose our path, and literally speaking two characters in book are at the mercy of the author. Does He cry because He sees the path laid before us, and the path just ahead is riddled with rocks, boulders, and debris that seem insurmountable just like I do for my two characters?

I imagine that my two characters cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel. I, like them, am on a debris strewn path where I am unable to see any light, and feel that the light will never show itself. Unfortunately, much of the debris before me was placed there by me. I would like to think that Heavenly Father sheds tears for me even in my own stupidity.