I find it that sometimes and idea or concept that I have touched on in one work reappears in something else, often years later.
Over the weekend, I set myself back to working on my devotional study of the First Letter of John. THIS POST discusses 1 John 2: 11. In it, I discuss how hate can cause us to lose sight of the Light of Christ.
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The issue of being in the dark, and not seeing the path, is one I had dealt with in a poem years ago. I had written “A Matter of Faith” based on an experience at a retreat.
When I think about it, there have been other occasions when the concept of stepping out into the unknown underlies what is happening in the story. Most of the time, the assumption is that the character is “just in the dark,” and would in fact be able to see, if there was just a bit of light on the subject.
I guess it is the underlying incurable optimist in my nature that keeps me for going for the point where a person or character truly is blind to their circumstances. Perhaps that is something I ought to explore in a story somewhere. Mostly, I seem to dwell on the inability to see because one is in the dark.
Every writer has images and concepts that tend to pop up at unexpected times, no matter what is being worked on.
(And then, of course, many writers also often muse on their own patterns as a way of procrastinating from actually writing. I guess I should get back to work! 🙂 )
