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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Reading and Writing...

And working to bring home bread for the kids.

My life has been rather uneventful as of late. I get up, go to work, come home, eat some food, read a book, write a bit, then go to sleep. Every now and again Brian will come over or I'll go over to his place and we'll watch a movie and have a good time. I wish I could keep up with this thing more often but I am rarely ever online these days. That's probably healthy for me... I was becoming an addict.

I have been writing more recently. It's a secret what I'm writing right now, so I'm going to keep you all guessing!! It's nothing important, of course, but I think this is the first project that I have taken on with any sort of seriousness about it.

I have come to a point in my own spiritual formation where I think I need to move away from some things I was involved in before now and move towards things I wish to emulate. I am tired of the bickering and fighting over this and that... whether post-modernity is a good or bad thing... whether God is Blue or Red, Left or Right... Whether we should continue to deconstruct traditional Christian faith or leave it where it's always been... and so on. I am just tired of these things, and I think that there are more important places I could be putting my time and energy.
One way I am going to do that is to finally sit down and identify with a group of believers. I am going to become a full-blown Episcopalian next month. Our Bishop is coming down and I am going to received into the church, God willing, on May 4th. Sad thing is, a good friend of Lynlea's, Melinda, is going to married on the same day. I will make the latter half of the reception but I am still a bit upset I can not be there for the ceremony. Priorities, regrettably...

Well, I am getting back to research. I am doing my best to pull together all of my avaliable resources to learn a bit more on the history of non-violence and the Gospel of Luke.

If you have a spare book laying around, I know someone you could send it to...

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