and that time is now.
It is Thursday afternoon and the rain is slowing falling outside the window of my two-bedroom flat here in Columbus. I have a paper due tomorrow that, for all intents and purposes, I have not yet begun. And yet here I am, writing an entry for my blog. Perhaps it will get the juices flowing...yeah, that's it!but seriously, folks... Yesterday, I began, like many of you, my Lenten journey. I have, as in past years, made a short list of those silly vices that I will, for forty days, close out of my life--fast food, ice cream, endless hours of Family Guy on Hulu. However, this year I am going to add something to the discipline: discipline. Anyone who has read the entries in this blog (and, honestly, I'd be amazed if anyone has) would find a frightening amount of malaise and discontentment that has, quite honestly, been just under the surface of my life for far too long. I am not hoping Lent will be some 40-day self-help bonanza. I am not intending for my faith to somehow suddenly alter my life. But I am finally ready to face my life as I have been living it.
And the time has come:
- to do the work, and not simply enough to get by
- to truly read and honestly write
- to stop making excuses
- to end the lies (especially the ones I tell myself)
- to make an honest effort to care for my body
- to engage my friends in real relationship
- to accept the fact that I am single, and that that does not mean something is wrong
- to pray
- to end this blog entry, and start my paper
posted by John D. Nevergall @ 17:32
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