Caught
Okay, I didn't get a post done yesterday. You caught me. No excuses. No reason. Just didn't.
By the time I got around to leap-blogging last night, I was exhausted. Nothing bad. Just a long day. Had a possible monkey-wrench in the works, blind-sided by a change I didn't know about. Threw me off for a while.
As I have said before, although maybe not here, I am great at change- for you. Don't mess with my world. We get in our patterns. Sometimes they become ruts, sometimes habits, sometimes worse. But most of the time we just keep on in the same ways we have been going. I turn at the same corner every time- even when I want to not turn this time. I set the alarm so I can hit the snooze for a few times. I read before going to sleep. I put my glasses in the same spot so I can find them.
So don't throw me a curve ball when you have always been pitching low and away. No changes, please. Not to MY routine and MY desires and MY expectations. Haven't you noticed that the world revolves around ME?
Oh well. Whatever. Time to move on.
A Fun Read
If you are overly serious about things like good and evil (or Good and Evil), the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the End of the World in general, don't read Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's funny novel, Good Omens. It is the story of an 11-year old anti-Christ and his neighborhood gang, The Them. You have an anel and a demon working together along with "soldiers" of the Witchhunters Army, The Four Bikers who truly are Hell's Angels, and a lot of fun. Armageddon in rural Britain with a lot of giggles and off-the-wall insightful thoughts.
Two Days
It is now only two days until I get to see LOTR:The Return of the King. Just watching the trailer gave me goose-bumps.
RSS again
I am now seriously considering moving to Moveable Type. I have it all set up already at my own website with the Bible Journal- which has recently become inactive again. I am thinking about switching this blog over there. That way all you RSS people can link to a daily read without having to leap-blog. Actually, sounds like an interesting idea. Will keep you posted on what I plan on doing. It is looking like a real possibility after Christmas.
Another from Yaconelli
Darryl Dash at Leading Dying Churches has the following quote from Mike Yaconelli in the book Stories of Emergence:
I noticed the changes first in my attitude toward the institutional church. I realized "the church of doing" was not the Church. I realized how life-smothering the modern church had become. I began to embrace my own illegitimacy.
I realized the modern-institutional-denominational church was permeated by values that are contradictory to the Church of Scripture. The very secular humanism that the institutional church criticized pervaded the church structure, language, methodology, process, priorities, values, and vision. The "legitimate" church, the one that convinced me of my illegitimacy, was becoming the illegitimate church, fully embracing the values of modernity.
