Day 25 of Lent - Why Do This?

Why choose to show up at the paintbrush and the page day after day, for all 40 days of Lent?

It’s because writers write.

This craft, along with any form of art, is a lifelong pursuit, to the glory of God. In the grand scheme of things, to take 40 days to call myself back to the service of this pursuit is nothing. But the gains have already changed my life!

Any practice that you relentlessly come to, each and every day for 40 days, will change your physiology. It will rewire your brain - for good or for ill, depending on what the practice is. My goal is to make this 40 days of training, this cultivating the delight of picking up the “pen”, my goal is that it become a physical biorhythm that I can begin to take for granted in my life.

The time will come, when I cannot imagine not writing. The time will come when myself and my whole family assumes that I will invest some of the most significant hours of my week at the keyboard.

It is the only way to grow. It is literally the only way to go from mediocre to great.

My answer is not for some publisher to stumble across my blog and give me a book deal. My answer is not to build a bigger and bigger social media platform so that a publisher wants to pimp my platform instead of being moved by the value of my message.

My answer is to face this (new-to-me, beautiful - praise the Lord) Mac screen, and every day to place my fingers on this wireless keyboard, and push big ideas around. My answer is to relentlessly arrange and re-arrange those ideas until the honesty behind them feels brutal, but the end result is beauty.

My answer is to move from words to worship.