The Family-Bound Monk

So I have no full-time job. I have a family - a wife and four children. I am a pastor of a small church, with no full-time pay. What am I to do with my time?

Since I have quit my secular employment I have been well-employed, it seems, with everything else under the sun. The things I desired to do have oft been overtaken by the ill-famed "tyrrany of the urgent." Thus, I have decided - no, I believe I have been called - to do something drastic for 2009.

I have been taught that within one year the cells of a man's body are renewed (with few exceptions). This means that with the proper diet and excercise regimen a man can literally remake himself in a year.

I believe there is a spiritual principle in this. I will undertake a monastic-style approach to life this year in order to renew this man, spiritually, physically and mentally. With a family and a pastorate, I cannot go to the monastery, so I will bring the monastery home. This blog will be my daily account of that renewal.