Most conversations are monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. Margaret Miller.
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Be yourself - Everyone else is taken (Oscar Wilde)
Most conversations are monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. Margaret Miller.
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Does this sound familiar?
Jesus had a son named Judah and was buried alongside Mary Magdalene, according to a new documentary by Hollywood film director James Cameron.(BBC)
It is true for religion as well as every other aspect of life that we sometimes seem to just want to go around in the same tired old circles. It seems that this particular one has still got a few rounds left in it.
They don’t mention that all this was found 30 years ago and that they were not believed to the the amazing discovery that is being touted at the moment.
Anyway it doesn’t matter really. It just shows how easily we are caught up in something that is obviously false and rather tired.
The trouble is that this is often the way that we live life. The search for truth is lost in our fascination with the bizarre and the trivial.
Local residents said they were pleased with the attention the tomb has drawn.“It will mean our house prices will go up because Christians will want to live here,” one woman said.
I think that this sums up this “latest discovery” by this director. Forget what is true and get people arguing about it. There will be some money there for someone?
I realised the other day that in an information saturated world that I just can’t keep up. I am interested in many things including:
And I am sure that there are more. In fact I am an intensely curious person. I love learning and enjoy people. My Bloglines account reflected my interest in many of the things that I have listed above. But, I couldn’t keep up any longer. Even though Steve Pavlina (who I admire greatly) can read at a thousand words a minute, absorb it and do something with that information I can’t. So after missing 1236 articles from Wired I decided that something had to be done.
So I have decided to stop.
I spent some time paring down my Bloglines account.
Here are the people that I read about now:
That’s about it. There are a few more but these are the ones who post most regularly and who I tend to read most of their posts.
Got a bit of time on your hands try this for a different approach to search:
Its a bit of fun but when I want information I want it fast. Google still does the job quickly and efficiently.
One thing that I can’t write about at the moment is time management. At the moment my time is managing me. My reading has been fairly sporadic and as a result I feel that I have had very little to say.
But, I did have a chance recently to hear on the radio an interesting comment on relationships and in particular the importance of a father, daughter relationship. There is undeniable evidence backed by solid research that the sort of relationship a father has with their kids impacts on the child’s future.
One of the things that stood out to me was the role a father has in their daughter’s life. I guess having three daughters and realising that more than likely in the future that one day they are going to be married made me very aware that the sort of relationship that I have with them now will prepare them to meet the right guy in the future.
What do I try to do to make sure that this happens:
– I try to spend time with them and ask them about their day.
– I pray with them every day.
– I listen to them
– I play with them
– I laugh with them
– I love their mother
– I am completely faithful to their mother
– I set boundaries for their behaviour
It was also mentioned that it is not the family structure that matters but the quality of the relationships within that structure. The premise is that the structure serves the relationships and not the other way around.
In saying this I realise that I am not the perfect father and I acknowledge that I am not always the perfect husband but I take seriously my role as a father.
It is interesting that when we talk about happiness we often will say, money can’t buy it.”
But if you trace this worldwide map of happiness it becomes very obvious that there is a correlation between wealth and happiness. I think that we tend to say it when we are in a position not to worry about meeting our everyday needs and we begin to think about our higher purposes. Time to do this only comes when we have enough money and spare time to contemplate such issues.
This is not to say that if we don’t have money we can’t be thinking about spirituality and the deeper meaning of life. It says to me though that the reason why so many of us are depressed is because we have realised the superficiality of our lives and the fact that money hasn’t changed that.
Our family has recently had some huge changes which may explain my lack of blogging lately. I know that I have talked about it but the reality of leaving my role as a pastor is really starting to sink in. I have hit the reality of being self employed with a rude awakening.
First Principle – If you don’t work you don’t earn any money. Not a big surprise and perhaps an obvious truth for many of us. Some of the immediacy of this can be hidden from behind the protective layers of sick pay, holiday pay and many of the other protective aspects of working for a wage.
So I have been working hard. Not because I think that I am getting rich but because of the tyranny of the urgent. I have been also working hard physically which has been a bit of a shock for my 42 year old body that hasn’t seen a lot of really hard work for quite a long time.
Second Principle – Hard physical work is good for the soul. It clears the mind of some of the trash and superfluous rubbish that can come in when we have the time and energy to indulge in such things. Lately I have got home and stayed awake till about 8.30 pm and then fallen into a very deep sleep.
Finally – there is life outside blogging, although I must admit I have missed it a lot. After not posting very regularly I realise I have missed putting my thoughts down and sharing them with others. I have also missed reading the thoughts of others and gaining from their insights.