I might change the title of my blog sometime in the future, but for right now I am leaving it, because it describes some of what my life is right now.
As I have recently begun marriage, working with God's body (and the institution known as the Church), and other various post-college things, I have found that I am rethinking many of the things that I've thought before. Part of the rethinking involves re-viewing tradition and the past. Another part is re-imagining what we can do with the future. While another part is re-evaluating the status quo. A huge part is re-telling God's story in the flow of our times.
I do not believe that God's truth has changed. I do not believe that the basics of human existence (suffering, joy, pain, love, evil, good) have altered either. But I am discovering that the lenses through which we see God's truth and the basics of human existence are changing. I desire to re-examine God's truth, and to re-tell it to my friends and fellow humans in a way that cuts through their current lenses.
God isn't absent from this re-everything. He inundates it all. And I believe he guides and will guide me in this.
I don't know what this will look like, but I feel the yearning to re-think. And hopefully through conversations, reading, listening and responding I will please God through this.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Fun
"Fun up there"
I wanted a photo for my profile, but couldn't figure out how to get it on there. So I just put it here and then used this URL.
Monday, March 28, 2005
The First
Well, this is my first official posting on my very own blog spot. We'll see how this runs.
I'd like to thank Brian Hull for getting me into this. Maybe I shouldn't thank him.
Current Thoughts: Beyond the ordinary
I gave a brief synopsis of our passion play at church on Saturday. Throughout the play one character referred to Jesus as "extra-ordinary". So, when I got up to conclude the evening I talked about how God has created a way to a life beyond the ordinary. But afterwards while I was eating at Ruby Tuesdays with Aubrey, I began thinking about my comments. I began to wonder if Jesus really came for us to have an "extra-ordinary" life.
I wonder if Jesus came to show us what ordinary really is. I wonder if he came to point out that we are living far below what we are intended to live. Perhaps our ordinary is not ordinary at all. Perhaps it is sub-ordinary, an existence that floats beneath the reality God intended us to live. Perhaps the life of heaven is the ordinary life and we miss out on it right now because of that darn sin.
If this is so, I desire to live the life of heaven, the one that is beyond the sub-ordinary. But how?
I'd like to thank Brian Hull for getting me into this. Maybe I shouldn't thank him.
Current Thoughts: Beyond the ordinary
I gave a brief synopsis of our passion play at church on Saturday. Throughout the play one character referred to Jesus as "extra-ordinary". So, when I got up to conclude the evening I talked about how God has created a way to a life beyond the ordinary. But afterwards while I was eating at Ruby Tuesdays with Aubrey, I began thinking about my comments. I began to wonder if Jesus really came for us to have an "extra-ordinary" life.
I wonder if Jesus came to show us what ordinary really is. I wonder if he came to point out that we are living far below what we are intended to live. Perhaps our ordinary is not ordinary at all. Perhaps it is sub-ordinary, an existence that floats beneath the reality God intended us to live. Perhaps the life of heaven is the ordinary life and we miss out on it right now because of that darn sin.
If this is so, I desire to live the life of heaven, the one that is beyond the sub-ordinary. But how?
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