David n Sarah

thoughts on post-its

I became a serial scribbler the year I was in Bible school. Apart from using up 9 journals in a 9-month period, I wrote on anything I could get my hands on. In class, I had my notebook for notes, my journal for some thoughts and scrap paper for those special burning thoughts.

These thoughts are quite special and have earned the spot as one of my favorite habits. It is an indication of a profound change happening in me. I scramble to write these thoughts down because I feel that if I wait another second my heart would explode. I scramble to find anything I can use to unload words on coffee shop napkins, old receipts, back of used checks.

Over the past three years, I have accumulated (with continuing results) many of these little notes. Some thoughts I've forgotten about, but most are like little bricks building onto a vision and the dreams that had begun a long time ago, stirring and forming by the use of these little notes.

Lately, I've been scribbling about the atrocious trafficking of children--- enraged by people who do not want to do anything and judge people who do intervene because doing anything about it would make one be an arrogant neocolonialist. Scribbling about the meaning of "restorative justice" (Desmund Tutu).

Do you scribble? What about?