Erin Ratchick

Writing to Reality

Writing has always been my form of fiction and fantasy, whether it be my own words or another’s. But for the first time, my writing became a reality. I had an imagination and vision for permanent ink but no guts to do it, until this summer. Preplanned, my tattoo design had been something I had thought long and hard about but nothing could have prepared me for the story that would go along with it. Centered across the globe in a small town of Tema, Ghana with eleven people I had never met before, God met me and created my vision into a meaningful story worth sharing and apparently worth publishing. My vision had gone from words in my head to words He had spoken to me loud and clear. At the time, I had not known the significance this would bring to me, but today I pack my bags to travel across the country and eventually back across the world to share a much larger meaning than just two words written in ink on my wrist. Today, I stand to fight a battle of slavery that runs across all nations; and all because of a simple image and one amazing God.