Writing forces your brain to choose. When you journal, you must choose which thoughts you attend to. You decide to pursue certain lines of reasoning and to disregard certain random thoughts. If you are wise, you will purpose to give special focus to powerful emotions that arise, cultivating curiosity for what is underneath. As you write, you make decisions of word choice, sentence structure and syntax. It is good brain work, exercising your mind in several different ways. If you write where others may read, you are likely to exercise imagination by putting yourself in the place of the reader. You decide how to craft your words for a particular audience. I am beginning to love writing and the discipline it requires. I love sharing what goes on in my life and my head in the hope that it brings laughter or enlightenment. I want to provoke others to think and spur them to live an examined life. I wish for them to know the intimate life with God that I am finding. I want to challenge and inspire them to grow. I wish for all to live in peace and joy, in tune with the Spirit and exercising their gifts to the full. So if you want clarity, write it down!