🌅 A transitional time, and playtesting Good Night, God
A unique season
As you may know, I quit my full time job in the tech industry in April to yet another open-ended season of hoping for God to lead me. In that space, it meant a lot more time with the family. I did a vocational discernment prayer course at All Saints and hoped to have a tangible career path from God by the end of it. In the process, I’m realizing that calling and career are very different things. Career can be within your calling, but it is not entirely your calling. Father, Husband, Friend, Follower of Jesus. I’m learning a lot in this season, including ways to nurture two little boys (and somehow keep projects like these afloat!)
Thanks for your support!
In the margins, I’ve been trying to self-motivate to finish the Examen book. I had most of the first draft done last March, took a career detour, and now I’m back in a flexible space to do creative work. In that, THANK YOU so much for pre-ordering Good Night, God. It’s been so encouraging and honestly highly motivating to actually pick up the pencil and finish the book. Up next is a collaborative music workshop with local artists on July 1 to set the book to music, a printing order deadline for July 15, music recording July 25 - August 5 with Paul Demer, podcast recording some time in August, and of course the release in October!
Play testing!
Right now I’m refining the artwork and “flow” of Good Night, God, play testing with my own kids and observing where they engage or lose interest. I’m at a point right now where I’m trying to collect as much feedback as possible from friends (and their kids) and I’m in the process of getting feedback from a Jesuit priest since Examen is kind of their thing lol. I’m also pitching the book to some publishers to see if I can’t get some support on the distribution and marketing.
Prayer
Would you pray that this resource would take the shape it needs to? That it would be helpful for grown-ups and kids to engage with God together? That I’ll have the capacity and clarity to bring this to fruition, through God’s help?
As the Anglicans do: Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.
