A Sacred Debt to Yourself

You take small assignments. You can't know more than you do. You start where you are. It won't go that well, but you do it because you have a sacred honor. You have a debt to yourself, a sacred prearranged debt to yourself to try to bring this work forward.

--Anne Lamott

Ever the genius. A sacred prearranged debt.

I like this so much. It helps me allow space for my writing to take precedence over whatever other debts in my life that I perceive need my attention: financial, time, relational, laundry… Those can wait, even the ones that are sacred in other ways. I will meet them as I can.

But this one -- this one is my own, and no one else can meet it but me.