no blogs...

to name the obvious: i've stopped blogging.

life got hectic and scattered, and somehow it was the first to slip. or maybe the 2nd. or 16th. either way, it stopped.


on a side note: i've stopped reading blogs as well [nothing personal]. i think yall are writing wonderfully insightful things, and having great conversations. honestly, i blame this 95% on luke overwhelming the blogging world with 15 posts a day in September/October and then only sticking to his blogging fast for an hour [i get overwhelmed when my RSS reader tells me i have 10+ unread blogs. currently: 81]. the other 5% is that i spend 6+ hours a day with a computer at work. when i get home what i really want is to sit in front of a person and not a screen.

i'll try to pick things up as my life gets better margins.


but for now, i've been reading Buechner's Wishful Thinking. It's simple and refreshing. thoughtful. All things i need right now...

Lying
There is perhaps nothing that so marks us as human as the gift of speech. Who knows to what degree and in what ways animals have the power to communicate with each other, but to all appearances it is only a shadow of ours. By speaking, we can reveal the hiddenness of thought, we can express the subtlest as well as the most devastating of emotions, we can heal, we can make poems, we can pray. All of which is to say we can speak truth - the truth of what it is to be ourselves, to be with each other, to be in the world - and such speaking as that is close to what being human is all about. What makes lying an evil is less that the world is mischievously deceived by it than that we are sorely dehumanized by it.

[and luke... blog as much as you're able. what the world needs is more of your thoughtful love, not less!]

the Birds of the Air

For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

Matthew 7:25 & 26



I've been reading the Message of late as well. Here it is. It's good...

"If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don't fuss about what's on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.