Something in each of our creative lives keeps returning. A question, a story, a half-written page, a subject we can't stop reading about. It may have been quiet for a season, and then it arrives again on an ordinary Tuesday as though it never left. Whatever yours is, you're welcome to bring it here, however unfinished it feels. Take a breath, and complete this sentence in the comments: "The thing that keeps returning to me lately is…" If nothing comes to mind yet, that’s welcome here too.

Sacred I was journaling during last night’s Sacred Writing Session and wondered how often we feel stuck because we've been taught to act first. “Just start writing, and the words will come,” they say. I've said it too. My dad used to tell me to think before I spoke. Or at least he tried to. 😂 I never really understood how that was possible. Until now. Although it's not really about thinking first. We've associated creating with doing, but what if, before you open your journal and start writing the sentence, you listen? Can you become quiet enough to notice what's there? The idea, the question, an inner knowing, and then the action comes. The words emerge, and you recognize the next step. Maybe the Sacred Pause isn't a pause from creating. Maybe it's where creating begins. Where in your creative process are you acting before you've listened? Writing begins with coherence.

You don't become an authority because you finally write the book, give the talk, or find the right words. Your authority already exists through everything you've lived, learned, and come to know. What you create gives that authority a form someone else can receive. What do you know now that someone else may need to receive?

Yesterday I invited you to look at the fragments you've already created, but how do you know which ones matter? One place to start is noticing what you keep returning to. Yesterday was about recognizing the fragments. Today, notice the repetition. You don't have to know what it will become. Sometimes we return to an idea because there's still more to discover, understand, or express. What do you keep returning to?

Kristen Valus shares that September 3 is the first 3-6-9 Manifesting Power Day of the month. Her invitation feels particularly fitting for Sacred Writing: Think it. Feel it. Write it. Express it. Then take the first step. What do you want to put into words—and begin creating—today?