Partook in the traditional all you can eat sausages and pancakes last night. It was fun.
I'm giving up sweets as usual. This is more difficult than it has been before, though I'm not sure why. Maybe it will even out after a couple of days.
I'm also using this book as a meditation guide. I saw it in the church library, and couldn't decide if I wanted to commit to something that rigorous (I'd been thinking about trying to meditate four or five days a week, not six). However, I opened it, and the first day not only had an excerpt of my favourite Psalm (139), but the excerpt that haunted me for months last fall. So that decided it.
Considering that I'm generally a fairly lousy meditater, I think it's going very well. One of the phrases in the first reading goes, "For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the trunk, so are we, soul and body, clad and enclosed in the goodness of God." I've lived with that in my heart all day, which is good, because it's not been a spectacular day otherwise.
I think the trick of meditating, or of the only way I've managed to do it, is to have a phrase to focus on, and if the mind wanders, as it does, to note the thoughts, dismiss them, and deliberately return to the phrase. Doing this as an exercise also seems to help me walk with that in my heart, or perhaps it's a way to tread a path in my mind that leads back to faith.
I'm interested in how the rest of the days will go.
I was late for work (with permission) because I went to the early Ash Wednesday service at church. The rest of the day seemed to be an exercise in learning to be humble.
I did buy comics though, which does tend to make me happy.
Especially Black Widow: Deadly Origins! I know, right? I've been bitching about this comic for months, but if you've been put off by that, totally get it and read through to the end. ( Spoilers ) To conclude, totally back to fan-girling Paul Cornell.
I am :-( that Doctor Voodoo is cancelled, because I was totally rocking it by the end. It took me a bit to get into the pace of it, and the world, but once I did the whole thing turned out to be largely made of awesome. It has such things as ( Spoilers ) Very fond, and I hope we get more adventures with Jericho and company soon.
Also :-( about the apparent cancellation of Spider-Woman. This may not be true, but she wasn't in the solicits that just came out (nor was Daredevil, so they might just be giving some titles the month off). It's another book that I started not 100% hot on but has grown on me. This one especially was fun.
Cap was Cap, but worth if for the exchange:
Sam: Steve warned me your idea of tactical planning was basically "rush in and get captured."
Bucky: He better not have said that--
Also, Rikki!
I'm giving up sweets as usual. This is more difficult than it has been before, though I'm not sure why. Maybe it will even out after a couple of days.
I'm also using this book as a meditation guide. I saw it in the church library, and couldn't decide if I wanted to commit to something that rigorous (I'd been thinking about trying to meditate four or five days a week, not six). However, I opened it, and the first day not only had an excerpt of my favourite Psalm (139), but the excerpt that haunted me for months last fall. So that decided it.
Considering that I'm generally a fairly lousy meditater, I think it's going very well. One of the phrases in the first reading goes, "For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the trunk, so are we, soul and body, clad and enclosed in the goodness of God." I've lived with that in my heart all day, which is good, because it's not been a spectacular day otherwise.
I think the trick of meditating, or of the only way I've managed to do it, is to have a phrase to focus on, and if the mind wanders, as it does, to note the thoughts, dismiss them, and deliberately return to the phrase. Doing this as an exercise also seems to help me walk with that in my heart, or perhaps it's a way to tread a path in my mind that leads back to faith.
I'm interested in how the rest of the days will go.
I was late for work (with permission) because I went to the early Ash Wednesday service at church. The rest of the day seemed to be an exercise in learning to be humble.
I did buy comics though, which does tend to make me happy.
Especially Black Widow: Deadly Origins! I know, right? I've been bitching about this comic for months, but if you've been put off by that, totally get it and read through to the end. ( Spoilers ) To conclude, totally back to fan-girling Paul Cornell.
I am :-( that Doctor Voodoo is cancelled, because I was totally rocking it by the end. It took me a bit to get into the pace of it, and the world, but once I did the whole thing turned out to be largely made of awesome. It has such things as ( Spoilers ) Very fond, and I hope we get more adventures with Jericho and company soon.
Also :-( about the apparent cancellation of Spider-Woman. This may not be true, but she wasn't in the solicits that just came out (nor was Daredevil, so they might just be giving some titles the month off). It's another book that I started not 100% hot on but has grown on me. This one especially was fun.
Cap was Cap, but worth if for the exchange:
Sam: Steve warned me your idea of tactical planning was basically "rush in and get captured."
Bucky: He better not have said that--
Also, Rikki!
