So, I was reading Blogs by my Methodist friends. I figured if Gavin and Jonathon and Ingrid and Jay and others I respect have blogs... well I might as well try my hand at it. It is 10 a.m. on a Friday. I am groggy. I have a lot to get done today. I should start the day with prayer.
A breath prayer is a lovely idea for an A.D.D. sufferer like myself. It's one prayer over and over again. Breathe in prayer. Breathe out prayer. Keeps me from being distracted. Today's is simply, "Lord teach me to pray." That's it. Over and over again - "Lord teach me to pray." The fact is, I don't pray enough. I don't read my Bible enough. I don't read anything enough. I have what Gavin calls "Multiple Book Disorder". I have six (seriously, six) books next to my bed. I have read the beginnings to four or five of them but I've never finished any of them. Of course this goes back to my self-diagnosed A.D.D.
All of this is to say. I am in the ministry and although I don't hide these facts from the people I minister to, this lifestyle certainly isn't helping me to be a better minister.
I also don't write enough. That is why I decided to start this whole blogging thing. I figure if I'm not disciplined enough to journal every day then... well, I'll blog and let people read it and if I don't do it enough I give you my full permission to call me on it.
How is it with your soul? I can't remember the last time someone asked me that because no one has ever asked me that. My hope is that you will be able to see how it is with my soul with my writings. I hope to be brutally honest. I would say that I want to be totally unguarded, but then that would be dishonesty.
More later. I need to close the laptop, turn off the TV and pray.
