Mid-Lent slump.

I've been in a bit of a funk this week, it's probably due to the fact that I haven't listened to a podcast since Sunday. Yell at me if you want but I've been yelling at myself enough for all of us. I wish had an excuse but I don't other than pure laziness and lack of discipline. I have started rereading Radical by David Platt though, and if you've read it before you know that 1 chapter of Radical = 10+ slaps in the face. It doesn't justify my laziness, but I'm glad I'm rereading it. (Quick Tip: I wouldn't advise reading Radical before bed, because you will lay awake for at least an hour mad at the world and disappointed in yourself for not being a better Christ follower, just FYI)
But anyways, after work tomorrow morning, my #1 priority is watching this weeks Breakaway podcast. We're a little over halfway through Lent so keeping my focus strong is going to be key, therefore prayers will be appreciated, and of course i'll return the favor. :)

I want to add a short excerpt from Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by: C.S. Lewis. It's something I've been meaning to share with you guys for awhile but I keep forgetting. This book is taking the back burner for awhile until I get through Radical, but If your at all interested in C.S. Lewis and the steps he took from being an atheist to one of the most knowledgeable Christ followers to date, I would totally recommend this book to you. The only thing though, Lewis loved big, rarely used words, so its not an easy read.

"The reader who finds these three episodes of no interest need read this book no further, for in a sense the central story of my life is about nothing else. For those who are still disposed to proceed I will only underline the quality common to the three experiences; it is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and from Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with then; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again. Apart from that, and considered only in its quality, it might almost equally well be called a particular kind of unhappiness of grief. But then it is a kind we want. I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world. But then Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is. "  (pg. 15,16)