Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week ~Joseph Addison
Is there anything in your life that makes Sunday special? Or for you is Sunday the same routine as very other day of the week?
Every Sunday: A Father & Daughters’ Enduring Connection by Donna W Dearborn is a story about a promise kept and treasured. The story goes like this – when Dearborn left home for college, she promised her father she would write to him every Sunday and her father promised the same to her. Well beyond college, for thirty two years, the practice endured.
As the author’s father aged, the letters became even more important to keep his memories alive of all the fun he and his daughter had together in large part through an active lifestyle. You see, they’d been hiking companions throughout Donna’s growing up. Spending quality time together was put high on the priority list when Donna was a young child and it remained at the top to the credit of both parties. The two obviously enjoyed being together.
Do you have a “Sunday story” you’d like to tell? Writing is an important way to preserve culture. Not every relationship is joyful and happy, but there are lessons to be learned from all stories. With the ability to publish independently in this digital world we live in, memoirs and autobiographies are becoming an ever more popular genre of writing. Here is a good article about why memoirs are important not just for the writer but also for the reader. Jane Friedman talks about the up-tick in memoir writing in her article.
For those who are interested in writing stories of faith, here is another article about the importance of storytelling for future generations.
Here is a writing prompt to get you started on writing your story of faith. Sunday is a day like no other because it allows us to (fill in your thoughts!)
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