This weekend while out shopping I stumbled upon some journals.  I needed some new journals to get the creative juices flowing again.  After my third semester of graduate school, when I had a class in the summer that took up a lot of time, my journal writing and creativity went into a downward spiral and I have been able to coax it out of hibernation for brief stints, but for the most part the grind of academic work and writing dwindled down an every day occurrence into a monthly occurrence.

So, to complete the thought I started above, I am getting back into journaling.  I bought two matching journals, one blue suede and one red suede, which are going to be my primary sources for creative inspiration, besides the poetry journal I already keep on the side. 

The blue one is going to be for prayers and meditations, while the red one is going to be for writing out prayer cycles, liturgical fragments, and thoughts based on lectio divina and the lectionary.  I am going to focus on one passage from the Revised Common Lectionary each day, and try to form some creative things around the passage, it what might turn out to be beautiful fragments or my own personal breviary.