My first written Prayer.
Journaling to God:
First of all, it’s important to note that God is omnipresent and all-knowing. This means that God already knows EVERYTHING.
All the things we don’t want Him to know…. HE KNOWS.
He knows our thoughts, feelings, intentions, motivation, and deepest darkest secrets that we wouldn’t dare share with another soul. AND, He loves us anyways!! Yes, he knows every terrible thing you’ve ever done and COULD DO, and He STILL LOVES YOU ANYWAYS.
There is no such thing as being “too personal” or too intimate with Him. He WANTS us to be gut-wrenchingly honest with Him, because what that really means is we are giving ourselves that same honesty. This type of honesty with ourselves is required for healing. This is how we form an intimate relationship with Him… which is what He wants!
Journaling is a great tool for sorting out our messy thoughts and feelings. It helps us connect dots that can’t be connected while they’re trapped in our minds.
It is relieving and freeing to unapologetically unleash the contents of our minds and hearts to an unbiased and victimless piece of paper. Journaling gives us the freedom to talk about whatever we want, in as much detail as we want. Sure, we can vent to friends and family, but that usually requires an active and conscious analyzing process to decide what is “appropriate” and safe to share with another person.
In journaling, there is no need to reserve parts of our stories that could be hard or unsafe to share with another person.
When you journal with God as your recipient, you can rest in knowing that there are no secrets. This allows you to dig down to the deepest trenches and cracks of your soul that are damaged. These parts of you have been pushed aside, snuffed out, and neglected either because of life, or just one of the enemy’s favorite lies: “no one cares”.
This is where healing comes, especially if God is your recipient. God. An reveal things to you that need attention in order to heal. God can help you see the correlation between an emotional scar (hurt or wound), or trauma… and life choices that we made that resulted in more pain and suffering. God can give you understanding, peace, comfort, joy, relief, rest, validation, wisdom, strength, and love – that regular journaling just can’t provide.
Journaling to God is also a way for us to learn how to talk to God and pray, a way for us to begin getting to know Him and truly seeing Him as our loving and powerful Father.
God wants us to talk to Him throughout our daily lives. He wants to be the first person we run to with our fear, frustration, sadness, pain, anxiety, stress, and all struggles.
People are hesitant to journal because they don’t know how, or they fear they can’t stay focused. The beauty is, it’s OKAY. It’s okay if you don’t know where to start, or if you get distracted (hello my fellow ADHD’ers 
), and end up writing about 753 different things. It doesn’t matter, because God is the only recipient. A lot of the time, God will show you by the end of the entry just how your 753 topics are connected. And even if not, it’s still beneficial for you. It’s beneficial for you to pour yourself out to God, into writing, because you’re finally giving rest to 753 things that were DYING to get out of you. Maybe those 753 things were taking up so much space in your mind that it was clouding your judgement, focus, attention, or thought process.
*How many times have we neglected our loved ones, their needs, or other important areas of our lives- because we just couldn’t get out of our own head?!
That’s why journaling is necessary.
The enemy wants us to believe that we have to keep everything locked up, so that we’re trapped in our own anxious and fearful minds. He wants this, because he can thrive in this environment.
I challenge you today, to start journaling and watch your life begin to transform.
If you don’t know where to start, my advice is simple: just start writing.
Put that pen to paper and the rest will begin spilling out. You can literally start with,
“Today, I’m feeling ________”. Or you can talk about your day:
What made you sad?
What made you irritated?
What made you angry?
What’s making you scared?
What made you worried?
What made you happy?
What made you thankful?
What memory came up today? Was it a happy memory? Or a sad memory?
What did you like about your day? What did you not like about your day? What are you needing in your life? What do you need help understanding? What would bring you comfort?
Just.
Start.
Writing.
