Day 14: Two Week Notice

Today I've made it two weeks of straight posting! I never thought I'd see the day.

Somewhere I had once heard that doing something for two weeks turns it into a habit. I was curious if this was true, so I did a Google search. The various sources couldn't seem to agree. There were some websites that said 21 days, others more like 28 days, and still some were 30+ days. I guess I still have a week or two to go before I qualify for a writing habit. I will be looking forward to that.

I admit that it has been pretty tough to come up with things to write about every day. There are a lot of things floating around in my head, but it's not always easy to turn these into a specified topic and write it with a full length entry. I've stuck to very generalized concepts instead of very specific ones because it is a forty day challenge, not a forty year one.

Nevertheless, I have a rough list of things left that I would like to write about, but I'm not entirely sure they are each and all good candidates for a post here. For one thing, I realize I'm not exactly the most qualified person to be expounding thoughts on God, Christianity, the Bible life, etc. but I at least hope that if you made it this far that some inkling of my thought helps you, inspires you, or challenges you in some way. I wasn't originally going to write these forty posts for an audience; it was a challenge for myself and an attempt to get closer to God through writing.

Nevertheless, if your reading this, I'm glad you found it, and you are one of the few keeping me accountable with my writing each day. I want to say thanks for taking the time to come take a look at what I've got to say. I hope you don't think any of my entries are very preachy or unrealistic or anything of the sort. I'm merely trying to put some of the things that I have felt strongly, curious, or inspired about into written words.

I must admit though that I am falling into the trap of coating my writing a bit too much since I know there are people out there reading it that I know. So, with your indulgence, I'm going to cut loose a bit more so I can get back to making this not only a challenge, but an enjoyable part of my life.

One way I'm going to do that is I'm going to take a few days and do some free writing. That means I'm going to give myself some time, start at the beginning, and just write until I feel I've written enough or my time is up. These posts may be more incoherent, grammatically incorrect, and not flow very well, but they will hopefully be a bit more raw. That means they will also include more of the things that are going on in my life currently.

So if you want to peer inside the chaos that is my mind, you'll get at least a day or two to do so (and I may come back and do some more of it again later). There's still a lot about living for Christ that I haven't fully grasped and I have many more questions than I have answers. Maybe you'll find something interesting.

In the mean time, I hope you'll go take a look at Day 12: Mysterious Ways and make a comment on the question(s) I posed there. I really enjoy feedback and especially when that feedback is more like dialog. There aren't too many of you out there reading this so don't be victim of the bystander effect and think someone else is going to comment :P

Thanks for two weeks! 3.714 more weeks to go.