Yep, my Spring Break this week was a 7-4 Spring Break. When my students were wallowing in sand in Florida or some place more exotic, I was at home. In Chicago. The snow melted early in the week with temps in the 70s, and now we\u2019ve turned north in our weather. It feels like Minnie-sooooooda. It\u2019s 35 degrees as I write this. Sure, it\u2019s sunny and we\u2019ve got a blue sky, but it\u2019s 35 degrees. Spring Break. So, what does 7-4 mean?
\nAt the computer and desk from 7am to 4pm, nose to the grindstone, reading, researching, and writing on fasting. I did have a nice breakfast with one local pastor on Thursday morning, and it was a very good time.
\nNow the total truth: I loved it. A whole week with an intentionally open schedule and a nice project that I\u2019m really enjoying.
\nIn past years, Kris and I have had the same Spring break week (she works at Wheaton College, and I at North Park) and so we took a week of vacation somewhere south. But this year our breaks were not the same, so we stayed home here in Chicagoland and I got to study and write.
\nHidden truth: On days I\u2019m at home writing on fasting, I don\u2019t have lunch \u2014 too much ambivalence to be reading and writing and thinking about fasting and then to spend lunch thinking about fasting while eating. If I had a two-month Spring Break for this book, I\u2019d shrivel up to nothing and they\u2019d find me in a little wad at the corner of my study.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yep, my Spring Break this week was a 7-4 Spring Break. When my students were wallowing in sand in Florida or some place more exotic, I was at home. In Chicago. The snow melted early in the week with temps in the 70s, and now we\u2019ve turned north in our weather. It feels like Minnie-sooooooda. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n