A Day for Writing

Today seems like a day to write. I have to write a paper, I want to write in my journal, and of course I'm writing in this. And I need to write something for the workshop on Thursday, though I guess I could use "Ballon Life" or pull out something old.

I also had at least one request to update this recently. However, there will be no poetry or ficition, in this post.

The past week has been filled with encounters with various persons have offered me countless things to ponder. (Unfortunately, these have kept me from doing things like grad school research and GRE prep.) I am further convinced of the hand and sovereignty of God, and more skeptical than ever of my own understanding.

I am finding that making judgments about or sizing people up--can really just be futile. There's so much we don't understand about other people. There is so much we don't see. Often times we don't take the time to ask. Often times we don't care. And in our critical assesments we are liable to reductionism. And I do believe in loving others we should at least strive to love them wholistically.

Btw, I did go to church today, and it was good. It was good in many, many ways. An issue, which I got involved in, is on it's way to being resolved. One thing that stuck out to me in one of the pastor's prayers was how we love so little back those who love us most. (I like him a lot, and he says and prays and lot of good things.) The question is how do we work towards loving others, because it is so easy to think narrowly and be so single-minded. Sometimes for a cause or a goal, people become secondary, they become a means to an end, or necessary only in passing. But no--Christ came to give people life, and we are to be bearers of this, to be life to others.

Well, I think that is more than enough for one day. I do not believe time is all we have, but I do not have much of it relative to the number of things I must do in the short-term. I am still looking for balance, for healthy.