Sometimes I think what I write is not worth writing if it is not related to Scripture or somehow addressing my relationship with God. I am tempted to think that I should not write it.
Yet my innermost thoughts are open to God and he knows most of them are neither related to Scripture nor to Him. If my innermost thoughts are open to him then whatever I write is even more open because it is recorded, it takes a solid form - - writing does not vanish like thoughts do. Whatever I am should be as open to me as it is to God. In other words, I should be able to remind myself of the ground I have covered. That written thought might serve as a sort of marker or mile post from which I can determine a correction (or confirmation) of the direction my life is taking. It won’t do to restrain myself if the restraining holds back my development.
The writing time would be a problem if it encouraged a direction away from God. But, even then, having it on paper might make the mistake so obvious that it identifies it as something that should be avoided.
When I re-read these things later I find important markers that help to direct (or redirect) myself.
