WHY WRITING IS IMPORTANT

Writing, the Heart of the Matter
By Terry Reis Kennedy

Who describes the ethereal flight of the butterfly? Who embraces the whizzing salt-spray sound of the sea? Who smells the grass and compares it to the scent of crushed violets? It is the writer.

While hunkering down in the trenches of war, while studying grand vistas from mountaintop perches, while sitting at the bedsides of their dying loved ones, great writers become our eyes and our ears. They are more than the camera and the tape recorder, they are spies for God.

A world without writers would be like the heavens without stars.

It is not just the poet who delves deep into the human psyche and puts into words the longings of the soul, who exposes the cowardice as well as the courage of humankind. It is also the journalist, collecting bones, sorting through ashes, and delivering the truth that sets us free.

A world without writers would be like a rose without fragrance.

Let us not forget the notebooks of the scholar, attentive to the grand design, putting each piece of the puzzle into place until it becomes a mirror.

And remember the saint whose diary reveals the spark of Divinity pulsing in each of us.

Clap with joy for those writers who send us into convulsions of laughter over the absurdities of life, and in so doing lift us up out of our trials and tribulations.

A world without writers would be like a bath without water.

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