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I happened across an idea for a new project a few days ago, but of course with the holidays and the visitors I've had little time to pursue it yet.  Just enough time, in fact, to realize that, yes, in fact, it will be a lot of work, not something that's going to "write itself."  And that's okay, but sooner or later that leads to "what if it's not worth it?  What if it's dumb, wrong, anger-provoking (in others), or otherwise unacceptable?"  The little demon-voices, they know just what to say.  So it was a relief to read my Rob Brezny this morning:

"God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet," wrote Frederick Buechner. You're free to ignore that call, of course. You can pretend that you don't really know what brings you deep gladness, and you can act as if the world's deep hunger is of no concern to you. But if you hope to be proud of the life you have lived when, many years from now, you shed your mortal coil, I advise you to at least experiment with using Buechner's formula as a working hypothesis. The coming year will be en excellent time to do just that.

I really should be doing something useful at this hour, but I'm not

Because Maggie's watching Muppets Christmas right now (for the first time) and I just noticed but I'm not the first.