I actually just wrote Kris Camealy an email this afternoon in which I said exactly that: that all this self-reflection and self-examination can be its own kind of idol. Some is good (essential!), but too much just keeps the focus on me, which is not.

And I am celebrating. As I told Kris, even though sales are…less than I’d anticipated, shall we say, I’m enjoying myself. I put this book out there, and I’m proud of it, and I know God was present in the writing of it. It was my little act of obedience–and it was such joyful obedience. I still am amazed by that! So yes, I’m celebrating…you know, insofar as I can, given my aversion to it