The Simple Magic of Writing Dear God Letters
I started writing dear god letters back when I was twenty-two and felt like my whole world was basically a dumpster fire. I wasn't particularly religious at the time—honestly, I was more "angry at the universe" than anything else—but I had so much noise in my head that I needed a place to put it. Journaling felt too much like talking to myself, and I already knew what I was going to say. I needed to feel like I was talking to someone else, even if I wasn't entirely sure who was on the other end of the line. ...