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Mariska Burger's avatar

Excellent!

Thank you so much Susan. This gives me so much affirmation and validity.

I write too. I love your writing style and I love reading the beautiful soul you are, in between the lines.

Be blessed more and more.

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

You’re such an encourager, Mariska. Thank you for your sweet words, and for taking time to comment and share. I appreciate you. God bless you as you write and continue growing here on Substack. I am enjoying seeing you develop your style and have appreciated reading your work as well.

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Mariska Burger's avatar

Thank you to you, for encouraging me, both to encourage again and to write from my heart. Thank you for the compliment. I am humbled and honored. It is only a pleasure to comment and share.

May God bless and protect you always.

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

Thank you, Mariska. Blessings!

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Joyce Lim's avatar

Nice to read your article. It enriches me so much. Keep it up! God bless.

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

Thank you, Joyous Day! I'm glad to hear this enriches your life. Thanks for your words of encouragement, and happy writing!

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Joyce Lim's avatar

You are welcome, Susan Kuenzi. It does. Thanks for your encouragement too! I'm not too sure about how to go about the subscription here. Just trying things out in some ways.

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

If you want to subscribe you would just enter your email in the little box. Following works too. Subscriptions are a way to receive the newsletter in your email. Or do you mean you’re trying things out as a writer? Take care!!

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Joyce Lim's avatar

Thanks. I appreciate your comment. Enjoy too! 😊

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Mike Crow's avatar

. Lord, give me a radical dependence on You. You are worthy of my full surrender and trust. YES!

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

Amen!!

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Joyce Lim's avatar

Yes I do know that. Yes I am kind of trying things as a writer, you are right! But still, I do not have much lengthy stuffs to share about too! Therefore, I'm trying my Substack through the notes I write first! From there, I will see how it goes! I'm kind of feel God is leading me here in a way to share His words! 👍🩷

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

Sounds like a nice way to ease into writing on Substack. Enjoy!!

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

Brian Causer shares reasons he writes in this valuable article: https://open.substack.com/pub/booksbibleyou/p/leaving-a-legacy-writing-for-the?r=22wfou&utm_medium=ios

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

Thoughts about writing from Devon: https://substack.com/@devoncomp/note/c-68910477?r=22wfou&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action. I will include this quote in my summary for the summer project.

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

This was my response to the note mentioned above: Jeannie, your response to his article really intrigued me. Thank you for this vulnerable, honest note. I am trained as a counselor and naturally I feel like saying, “Tell me more.” Only because I truly care about what you are saying here.

I thought about whether I feel those things. Rarely. Here on Substack, I have felt a marvelous freedom to be myself. I recognize my words won’t resonate with everyone. I am pretty open and at ease with who I am and what I have to say comes from my heart. But I wonder if this has to do with how we feel about ourselves and the trust we have that our identity and worth isn’t attached to our performance or the opinions of others.

I wrote an article earlier about rejection, criticism and affirmation. Obviously this topic is one that I have reflected on.

I am interested in ways you feel you have put a barrier between yourself and readers. Thanks for your openness here. You gave me some things to reflect on.

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Susan Kuenzi's avatar

https://open.substack.com/pub/wordsworthsharing/p/writing-online-in-your-60s-is-the?r=22wfou&utm_medium=ios. This article, read in her own voice, captures the spirit of this summer project beautifully. Very soothing voice, too, so have a listen!!

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