Writers' Group
Fridays, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
San Fernando room

Mission
We are a welcoming group of writers with different skill levels who gather weekly to hone our craft and share our work in an encouraging atmosphere of friendship and mutual support. We pray, we listen, we learn, we laugh.

About Us
​We explore and practice different types of writing and read our work to one another each week. Some days we do “free writing” for ten minutes on a chosen topic. Other weeks we read our prepared pieces (limit 750 words) on a designated subject. Our comments on one another’s writing are constructive and honor the deep feelings that are expressed.

Our topics are not overtly “religious,” but give us an opportunity to express the concerns of our souls. Many consider the experience to be healing. We encourage humor and playfulness; we laugh a lot. This is as much a faith sharing group as it is a writing group. We pray together. We take care of one another.​

We share each other resources about writing and, equally, the responsibility for the successful working of the group.

New members are welcome anytime to our friendly group.

​WINDS OF CHANGE
Theresa Schulz
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Each today leaves behind a yesterday. Our life changes as each new day unfolds. We must cherish our todays before the winds of change blow in tomorrow.
Too often we are so absorbed with our routine life that time and changes go unnoticed until a day when life takes an abrupt change. Perhaps it’s because of a death, illness, a pandemic or endless reasons. We’ve seen friends and family cope with those situations, so it’s not unfamiliar. But when we, ourselves, are confronted with an unexpected crippling change, we are swallowed up with anxiety and fear.  But we have no choice, we must deal with it.  
How often we’ve been told to thank God for everything. But to be thankful for upsetting situations is a challenge.  However, when we surrender to God and truly trust that he will take care of everything, we can find true peace. 
No matter what happens in our life, time doesn’t stop. We still have the todays and the yesterdays will continue to follow. They will roll into years and then many, many years. But we get to live those years one day at a time. If we learn to cherish the moment, the tomorrows won’t need to be a worry and past heartaches don’t need to haunt us.
Yes, the time will come when our days will be no more --like the wind that blows and then it’s gone.
Perhaps the wind is a messenger for God. Like God, we can’t see it, but we can feel it.  It’s mentioned in the Bible many times. Remember when Jesus calmed the winds of the sea?
Although we have learned to use wind for its benefit, only God has control of when and where it will blow. We can’t control the violence or timing of tornadoes and hurricanes. We cherish a sudden breeze in the hot summer.
Have you noticed? There seems to be a calmness that follows a strong wind? The skies are clearer and there is a sense of serenity. 
Is this a message?

Orison
Eva Velasquez
 
Thank you for this and that. I didn’t ask for that but you gave me this.
Thank you for those and these, but not for that.
“You’ll need these,” you said, and so I said “Yes” to that.
No more this or that, I pray.
“Wait,” you said, “there is more of this and plenty of that to give.”
“Can I have those, instead?” I petition.
“Not now. Try this, you will see, you can handle all-the-rest!”
“Is this a test?” I inquire.
“Yes and No and Maybe so.”
“I see,” I said, “it’s this or that?”
“Yes,” said the Lord.

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