Spiritual Journaling

By Catherine Franz

Whether you keep a separate spiritual journal or just want
to add your spiritual postings in your regular journal, you
will want to read this.

Personal journaling supports our development and growth.
But spiritual journaling goes deeper. Spiritual writing is
a reflection of our soul. Like personal journaling it too
is a tool for self-discovery, aids concentration, is a
safety valve for emotions, a training ground for improving
thought to paper processing, and builds self-esteem and
confidence.

Spiritual growth is not just about religion, it concerns all
life -- time, goals, relationships, work, politics, and our
inner life. Spiritual journaling is a process where the
part of us that connects with God, or our higher power,
expresses itself. It is a process of where selfishness can
be transformed into caring, rebellion into obedience, and
despair into hope. It is with this connection that personal
development occurs.

Journaling is just one discipline to a greater path of
grace. Prayer and fasting are the other two. This
discipline is a response to grace not an alternative. It is
also an adventure in joyful freedom.

Have you ever been listening to your pastor or priest and
you zone out briefly, hear something profound, and then
suddenly snap back? It