I'm starting.

Tonight I started actually typing my autobiography.  Right now I'm doing my childhood and the narrative is a bit fragmented, not to mention not in chronological order.  I plan on poking at it again tomorrow evening.

Don't expect anything world changing.  

And now...  my favorite stanza from No Line on the Horizon by U2.  The song is called Stand Up Comedy.

Stand up, this is comedy
The DNA lottery may have left you smart
But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart
I can stand up for hope, faith, love
But while I'm getting over certainty
Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady

I love this quote.

Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.

Wendell Berry

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I’ve been sick for the better part of the last week and tonight I’m finishing an outline for a class I’m teaching on the first half of the Book of Acts tomorrow.   I hope to get the first installment of my autobiography out in the next week or so.  (I have to teach on Romans in 2 weeks, so I better not sit on my hands).

I thought I'd post this rather than continuing to do nothing.  :)

If there is no line, it is a horizon?

Ok, it probably won't be as world changing as the work of the Wyld Stallyns but it's pretty good stuff.  No line on the Horison is a bundle of contradictions.  It bitingly satirical, reverent, inspirational, full of arrogance, and self deprecating.   Typical U2 fare.  

I've been pondering my autobiography.  I'm wondering just how much to include.  One might say, only the parts that are spiritual.  My reply would that it is all spiritual.  My 'mother issues', my relationship with my dad (hmmm... note the "dad" versus the more formal "mother"), my love of science and math in high school, finding a job in an arboretum on a job board in college, my inability to fit in with most people, my possible mild asperger's syndrome, my accidently job in a rehab after college.  I do need to get it started though.  

Digital Fast

Ok, maybe... sorta...  Lent starts today and I'm going to give up my Xbox 360, at least on weekdays.  I am planning on going cold turkey from sweets though.  Let's see how this goes. :)

I'm hoping that I'll spend more time on profitable things, like blogging maybe.  I'm starting a discernment process on whether or not I want to study toward becoming a deacon in the Episcopal tradition.  One thing I've been asked to do in preparation is a "spiritual autobiography" detailing all the major events in my spiritual development.  A friend of mine (everyone wave at Jonathan) suggest I blog it, thus killing two birds with one stone.  I think that might be a decent idea.  So... hopefully there will be several more posts in the near future.