Saturday, November 12, 2011

I'm Going to Write a Book: The Cheerful Pilgrim

I decided this week that I'm going to write a book. Whether it ever gets formally published is less important to me than the writing. It will take me a year because each chapter will be a pilgrim's journey through a month and I'm beginning it now. It won't be a diary in the sense of keeping a slavish record of daily happenings, but a collection of the months' experiences from both now and in the past.

Since I'm starting with November the beginning is the end chronologically, which I think is appropriate. Pondering on the end gives a different perspective to the rest putting it in the context of the last things (death, judgment, heaven, and hell) which should really be among the first things for the pilgrim journeying through life. Keeping our end's goal in sight is the only way to reach it. So I invite you to join me along this pilgrim's journey through the year and in fact follow your own journey. We are all walking the path and, what a shame, if we don't study it along the way. As Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. So let's examine ours together.

3 comments:

Adrienne said...

Whoa - I didn't know you had this blog. The book sounds great...

Mary Ann Kreitzer said...

This is my fun blog. I love to post photos of my grandkids and our trips and mostly I don't put them up at Les Femmes. I'm going to set up a page with our cross country trip on it so people can check out all our adventures out west.

Adrienne said...

Looking forward to it...