Learning new ways of writing is like learning new music. It is easier to hum along with familiar melodies and rhythms. Learning the yet untried means deliberate focus, attention to details, and risking mistakes. I need to listen and learn as I work on song. I am listening and learning as I work with words. May singer and writer stretch to embrace the new notes.
The Untried Melody
Howard Thurman
I will sing a new song.
I must learn the new song for the new needs
I must fashion new words born of all the new growth in my life---of my mind---of my spirit.
I must prepare for new melodies that have never been mine before,
That all that is within me may lift my voice unto God.
How I love the old familiarity of the wearied melody,
How I shrink from the harsh discords of the new untried harmonies.
Teach me, my Father, that I might learn with the abandonment and enthusiasm of Jesus,
The fresh new accent, the untried melody,
to meet the need of the untried morrow.
Source: from "I Will Sing a New Song" in Meditations of the Heart
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