This is my second start at today's blog entry. It is a change of course. The last couple of days I've been reflecting on the reflections in the book Iona Dawn: Through Holy Week with the Iona Community. That's what I started to do again tonight, but in so doing the writing got too personal and I was not ready to make it available in a blog that could be read everywhere.That's the one thing that I haven't done in this Lenten blog - do a lot of writing about where and how this blog might be read. I know there are a few of you out there reading it on a regular basis - or at least you were at one point, but when I last checked I did not have many followers, and no comments have ever been posted. I have a feeling that some things have been said to me or done for me as a result of things I wrote about only in my blog, which indicates that more people are reading than I thought.
I fully expect when Lent is over and I no longer need to write here as part of my Lenten discipline, that I will stop doing a daily entry. It is also my intention to do some reflection on the whole experience. Where did this take me, what did I learn, would I do it again, were there themes or directions that came up that I did not expect - all those kinds of questions. But that is for when it is all over.
There are still three (not counting tonight) entries to go so I will save the reflection until it is all over. However, I also know that my commitment to the discipline will probably receive it's biggest challenge in the next few days.
We are having visitors for the Easter Weekend and the first ones arrived today. There will be lots more demands on my time besides the regular extraordinary demands of Holy Week and Easter. It's all good - it will be wonderful to share time together and to have people around. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about the visitors who arrived today: Our granddaughter - who will be five months old on Easter Sunday - the day of her baptism, arrived at around noon today. She brought her parents with her - well they actually brought her, but we all know who the real focus of attention will be.
But that's why blog entries will be hard to complete in the next few days - with all the people and activity to attend to, to say nothing of the extra pressure and responsibility of planning Holy Week and Easter worship.
And so, that's all I have to say this evening. I might eventually get around to finishing that "other" entry and doing something with it, but I think it will always be a little too personal for the blogosphere.
TTFN
Yellowknife,
Wednesday, March 31
