Hello dear fellow Rebels!
We at Rebellious Writing have been anxiously waiting for this day for a long time. Today, we *officially* welcome a new member to our team!
A few reminders before the big event:
1. RW is taking a blogging hiatus from December 17 - January 6 for the holidays and for housekeeping stuff.
2. For those of you who submitted guest posts, please keep an eye out for an email from Catherine Hawthorn in the next two months. This email will ask for confirmation and/or a request for material, and will tell what date the post will be published on.
We at Rebellious Writing have been anxiously waiting for this day for a long time. Today, we *officially* welcome a new member to our team!
A few reminders before the big event:
1. RW is taking a blogging hiatus from December 17 - January 6 for the holidays and for housekeeping stuff.
2. For those of you who submitted guest posts, please keep an eye out for an email from Catherine Hawthorn in the next two months. This email will ask for confirmation and/or a request for material, and will tell what date the post will be published on.
And now, it is Rebellious Writing's pleasure,
to introduce to you,
our new YouTube Coordinator......
Keturah Lamb
Keturah Lamb is a young woman learning how to both live in and embrace God's reality. The written and verbal words help this process. She likes to call herself a realistic idealist. She has many passions in life, the first being her ideas concerning friendship {love}, the second being laughter {smiles}.You can learn more about her and her passions at her blog, Keturah's Korner.
Keturah offered to guest post for us some months ago before the position was open, so the team thought it was a good idea if she posted it now. Without further ado, here is Keturah!!
Readers read.
Writers write.
But why?
Everything has purpose backed by motivation. But how often do we stop to
examine what
that just
might be? Do we truly understand the words that control our very own thoughts?
This has
always been one of my favorite topics—reading, writing, anything to do with
words. I love
words,
both written and verbal. There's just something about them… a beautiful pull
toward something beyond
wonderful.
Words are
powerful though, I've come to realize.
We can do so much with them.
We read
them and our minds and
hearts are influenced, often molded toward some sort of change.
We say them and
affect others.
We
hear them and we ourselves are affected.
And still
few know this.
Why?
Because the power of words is subtle. Good and bad, its presence is hard to feel at first.
But if we
choose to think about it, we all admit we feel the way words pull at us all,
even those of us
who
neither read nor write. Words determine much of humanity's destinations… love,
war, family,
friends,
enemies—all are controlled by the words one chose to release.
And so we
are forced to think why.
Why do I
write? All of us have different answers, but mine is this: to edify, to
encourage, to entertain.
Why do I read?
To be edified, to be encouraged, to be entertained.
And to me
all three of these are equally important. In all honesty, we read and write
because we enjoy
it.
Entertainment is not bad… but void entertainment is. And that's why we seek to
be inspired
(encouraged)
and to be taught (edified), and as we learn and grow it's only natural that we
would want to spread
more of these things, to continue the path of good words.
Once we
realize this it is time to throw in another E—Evaluate… how is this affecting
me, those
around me,
and my relationship with God? And that's when we can honestly determine which
words
are worth
reading and writing.
And that's
why I'm excited to be joining the team! Because together we are all rising up
and choosing
to ask the
hard questions, “Is this worthy of being read/ written? Why?”
We are all
choosing to think.
Together
we are rebelling against conforming with the flow of “whatever they do” to “this
is why I do
this”.
Together
we are choosing to righteously resist that which is not good, clinging to what
is perfect and
worthy.
- Keturah Lamb -