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I'm committed to doing a forty-day blogging challenge, and it starts today. Every Monday-Saturday from now until Easter, I will write a new post. The themes, elements, and styles will vary, but they will all be reflections of what's on my heart and mind. This is my Lenten challenge - an opportunity to commit myself to digging deeper and following through on a self-driven commitment - an area I openly admit to struggling with. Case in point, this is my third rewrite of the first post, and up until now, I didn't really know the direction I wanted to take it. So before I get too deep into this, I'd like to start with a formal introduction.

Hi. I'm Sean. I live in northern Minnesota with my beautiful wife and two amazing kids. Sometimes I get really caught up in the busyness of life and forget to connect well with them, with God, or even with myself. These blog posts will be used for some of my own personal introspection - a means of finding out who I am apart from what I do - a way to learn more about the man that God created me to be. By the end of this challenge, I expect to have pushed through enough discomfort that I will be stronger, more confident, and more flexible. My intentions are to develop my knowledge of my identity and use that knowledge to become a better friend, pastor, brother, son, father, husband, and servant of God. 

I invite you to join me on this journey. Perhaps the things I'm learning will help you find out something you didn't know about yourself. Comments, questions, and suggestions are highly encouraged throughout this challenge. That's the amazing thing about life - we don't live it out alone, and there's not a single thing any one of us does that doesn't have an impact on everyone else around us.

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