Lent is upon is. It's a strange season to enter and even more awkward to invite into your life. Happy Lent! (not quite...) Here we go - Lent. (ummm, no.) Welcome, Lent. Yes, that feels like what I hope for this season. An open heart to welcome and embrace the space Lent gives us to remember and experience death in order that life might spring forth. It's a time for giving up vices and letting go of self. We make room for the One who died so that we might have life.
I had been thinking long and hard about what Lenten practice I wanted to participate in this season. I had a few ideas but never felt settled on what I wanted to do. So, I asked Corey. We talked about my desire to create space. And then we talked about how school has been all-consuming for me, despite my desire to have more balance. He thought for a moment and then said - I think you should take time everyday for writing. As soon as he said it I knew that's what I needed to do.
Writing is important for me. It's a way for me to be present in my own life, to sit with some of the darkness and make my way to the light. And yet, the time I make for this life-giving activity is very little. So, making space for connection and reflection seems just right. And by taking time everyday for writing I will necessarily be forced to cease other all-consuming activities, namely the homework that I so devoutly spend each and every moment attending to.
And since I originally started this blog as a space to nourish my soul and work out my salvation with fear and trembling it only seems right that I come back to this place this season of Lent.
So, today I re-read the words that name my desire for this space - they are sitting right there in the upper right-hand corner of my blog - and I invite myself back into this place. Welcome, Lent.
I had been thinking long and hard about what Lenten practice I wanted to participate in this season. I had a few ideas but never felt settled on what I wanted to do. So, I asked Corey. We talked about my desire to create space. And then we talked about how school has been all-consuming for me, despite my desire to have more balance. He thought for a moment and then said - I think you should take time everyday for writing. As soon as he said it I knew that's what I needed to do.
Writing is important for me. It's a way for me to be present in my own life, to sit with some of the darkness and make my way to the light. And yet, the time I make for this life-giving activity is very little. So, making space for connection and reflection seems just right. And by taking time everyday for writing I will necessarily be forced to cease other all-consuming activities, namely the homework that I so devoutly spend each and every moment attending to.
And since I originally started this blog as a space to nourish my soul and work out my salvation with fear and trembling it only seems right that I come back to this place this season of Lent.
So, today I re-read the words that name my desire for this space - they are sitting right there in the upper right-hand corner of my blog - and I invite myself back into this place. Welcome, Lent.
The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
~Annie Dillard
"That's what this blog is for - to help me be there. To remind me to pay attention. To remember who I am, where I have been, and the hope of what is yet to come. Welcome to this space. I hope you find a word or image that invites you."
~Annie Dillard
"That's what this blog is for - to help me be there. To remind me to pay attention. To remember who I am, where I have been, and the hope of what is yet to come. Welcome to this space. I hope you find a word or image that invites you."
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