Lent Day 16 "Two weeks"

After just a little more than two weeks of setting myself the goal of writing every day, and then actually mostly having done so, I am impressed with the results that I am already seeing.

Often, I will get a bug in my head about something, needing to do something a different way, wanting to add something to make me a better me.  I'll be all fervent about it for a while (eating better, exercising), but after a few days or weeks, the initial blush of interest and rush of change wears off, and I return to exactly the same pattern I had before I attempted to make the change.  This assignment/ change/ self-discipline has been different.  It has engaged a part of me that had been screaming to get out and be put to use.  It has also started to change how I interact with the world.  No longer do I just pass by things and perhaps have a passing thought or sense of curiosity about some object or incident or person, but I start to note the mental spark and catalog it for later (special thanks again to my hubby for the wonderful journal as a repository for those jottings).  I have also started to look beyond just passing through the world and being in it and of it into more of a sense of being in the world and also being able to comment on it.  The mental jottings (and physical jottings) have been a very important exercise for my creativity.  No longer is it just an interesting footprint in the snow (see entry from 2.26), but possibly the start of a character sketch, or the entree into a deeper and wider world.  (the shoeprint I saw really did look like the walker overpronates!).

Thank you to all of you who have continued to read on this journey with me and share your reactions.  We all still have a long way to go on this Lenten Journey, and I look forward to continuing it!