Buffet My Body

In February we will enter our seventeenth year as an active reading group. And, while the number seventeen holds no special significance for us, we feel the need to commemorate the occasion. Serendipitously, it has become known to us that a certain local eatery, Country Buffet, will allow patrons to pay for Breakfast, and stay for Lunch and Dinner. This sounds like a challenge worthy of the Fictionados. So, sometime in the year 2009, we plan to convene at Country Buffet at 8: 00 AM, and adjourn at 8:00 PM, eating three meals and holding a marathon discussion session. Other activities will be needed, of course: I have in mind showing a movie on a laptop, playing a few games, getting up and walking around once every hour or so, etc. I am not sure just how discrete we will need to be with the staff, but I am sure we can pull it off. This will be the one event you dare not miss. Maybe there will even be a T-shirt. The more I think about this, the more I like it. Start training now.

1 Cor 9:27 Amplified Bible
But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].