NaNoWriMo...about to begin.

I don't really know what I'm in for. I'm in the middle of a life-change toward order, so I have my whole schedule on sheets of paper with checkboxes next to them. This is a great departure from the first 33 years of my life, when I rejected this kind of accountability. In fact, if you wrote down what I did for a day, and could show me the day before that this is what I would be doing tomorrow, I would bristle at the thought.

But I know this is the key to a lot of things in my life...the end, hopefully, of a million missed opportunities, or unmet expectations. God is so far above us that His answer to my complicated life is as simple as a sheet of paper with checkboxes on it. His final answers seem like starting points to me. It's got to be harder than that. My life needs alot of work! Anyway, so this is the month that I write a 50,000 word novel. Why not, right?

The great thing is that Mary is cool with the novel. She simple said, "Great, let's just make space for it on your list." No judgement, or rational pleading (like, "This is the month that we change your 33-year old life pattern...and you want to write a novel too?"). Just another thing on the little sheet of paper. Another check box. Another pebble in the road to peace.

Hmmm...maybe I'll take up karate this month, too.

Hello World!

this is maybe the most overused and cliche "first posts" in the history of the world.