Words cannot describe

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I saw this on the Today Show this morning.  I felt it imperative to share.  I have no commentary, no words at all really; I’m just wraught with despair at what we are all capable of.

Beginning routine

After posting a new entry five days a week throughout Lent I took a break.  My intention was to take a week or so off during which I would contemplate whether or not to continue blogging.  Naturally, weeks turned into months as I quickly fell out of the discipline of writing regularly and now I find myself in the first week of June having not made a single entry since March.  Within days, something that had become a significant part of my life, or at the very least a significant part of my routine, had been discarded rather unceremoniously.  I have justified it as either having run out of things to say or “burn out,” but neither excuse really suffices.  Really, it is probably a case of boredom.  I stopped writing because I got bored with the routine.  This happens far too often in my life.  I have far too often tried to maintain a spiritual discipline, regular scripture reading, prayer, meditation, fasting only to grow bored with them after a few short days or weeks.  And I don’t understand why.  Have I become so ADD, so driven by my insatiable desire to experience something new, that I am incapable of maintaining any spiritual discipline for longer than a few hours?  Can I honestly not participate in something that has been done by millions of people from different faith traditions for thousands of years?  This certainly can not be the case, but I can’t think of a time where I have been able to maintain some sort of regimented discipline for any length of time with the exception of working out and that even falls to the wayside as life gets complicated.   So today I change all of this.  I will begin bykeeping up the blog.  Two entries a week and all I ask is that you hold me accountable.