Welcome. Lent begins today and today I begin Lenten discipline. Missi and I were talking about Lent a few weeks back and the way people mark the season through various goings-without. Neither of us are big on punishing ourselves as a means of seeking religious enlightenment. Besides, I just started going back to the gym recently after a long layoff and feel I’m experiencing enough pain and frustration through that exercise to excuse myself from culling the chocolate and beer from my diet.
We got to discussing positive additions we could make to our lives instead and Missi suggested I should make writing my discipline this season. Actually, she very nearly ordered me to do it- though I doubt she’ll remember it that way- but it doesn’t matter. The suggestion was sound and I am taking her up on it. Further conversation led to the idea of posting my writing for all the world to see. I am doing this not because I have any confidence that what I write will be worthy of a wide audience but rather to give myself a little accountability. Forty deadlines to force myself to stay on track. I make no promises to do any more than try. Some deadlines might get missed. Some might be met with poor efforts. If, however, I am going to do this then those are the terms; I trust in your grace, dear reader, as I attempt to overcome my literary perfectionism.
The only question left begging, then, is what I will write. To be honest, I have no idea, or more accurately, too many ideas, none of which are quite good enough for me to be entirely comfortable with them. Some posts will be reflections, others stories, and some things yet undreamt. I can almost guarantee I will immediately hate some, love a few and at some point slip up and use a word that might make my grandmother blush. Through it all, though, I will strive to meet my deadlines. All forty of them. Anyone who wants to check in occasionally is welcome to join me for the ride!
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