There are many roads that lead to the Catholic faith. For most converts (or reverts) we’ve been loved into our sacred religion. Be it a grandparent who zealously prayed for us, a girlfriend who accompanied us in Pre-Cana and into Baptism, or a missionary who manifested God’s saving power to us. This is (and should be) by far the greatest means by which we bring people into the Church.
Others experience an intellectual conversion. Think G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, and Henry Newman for example. Their love for Christ was rooted in study be it philosophical, scriptural, or academic, they found their way into Christ’s family through the via of their minds.
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Once brought into the fold of Jesus’ one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church, converts (and reverts) manifest His graces into the world by practicing their faith in a myriad of ways. One way in particular has born a great deal of fruit for today’s saints-in-training, namely, the practice of spiritual journaling.
The history of journaling is a topic of great fascination. According to scriveiner.com (a popular writing platform similar to Microsoft Word or Mac Pages), “The modern diary has its origins in fifteenth-century Italy where diaries were used for accounting. Gradually, the focus of diaries shifted from that of recording public life to reflecting on the private one.” And as history turned into the present, famous journalers like Henry David Thoreau, Anne Frank, Mark Twain, and Lewis Carroll would record their heroic lives so that we could reap the benefits of their most personal thoughts, emotions, bullet-list ideas, even their poetry.
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