It’s been quite a while since I’vd posted anything here, and
you deserve the following explanation.
Since January 5 I’ve been pouring myself into writing a book for my children, grandchildren,
and great-grandchildren. Tentatively
titled An Emptyful Chair: GrandDad’s Contemplative Path to God, the book
has been in the making for well over twenty years. It’s my prayer that I may at last complete the manuscript sometime during this Lent, hopefully before Easter so
that I can send it off to a publisher. This means that my Lenten discipline will now involve lots of writing,
editing, and proofreading.
But writing is not a stand-alone discipline. Co-joined at the pen’s dib and at the ink
well, there will need to be a good bit of daily solitude, good sleep at night,
letter writing and lots of phone calls for fact checking.
I hope to include lots of photographs, several in each
chapter. Here’s one for Chapter 2, a boyhood pix of my brothers Arthur and Gordon with me wearing a cap:
You can help me. I ask that you pray for me so that each morning, during the quietest time
of day, when I pour myself a cup of coffee and settle into the crafting of sentences,
paragraphs, pages, and chapters, I have your spiritual support. Much has already been written, but so much more
needs rewriting, lots of special attention given to style, and a generous impulse to
delete all that is self-serving, innocuous, and banal. As things progress, I’ll do my best to share some
of my scriblings and sentences, giving you some idea as what the book may look
like. Pray that the Spirit of God will be my dear muse as together—you, the
blessed and Holy Trinity, and me—can do some creative composing for my children
and whomever else may wish to read what Granddad writes about the contemplative life.
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