I'm sorry things have been so quiet here lately. It's amazing how, on returning from a break like a sabbatical, you can get consumed in the usual stuff again so rapidly.
Never mind, I do intend to keep blogging here - to kick start me again, in a pain-free manner, can I direct your attention to 2 postings from another blog I've been enjoying lately.
I don't consider myself an adventurer, but I like the distiction with average/ordinariness. I preached recently to on the art of solitude, and love the distinctions referred to here.
Be back soon.
'Nothing to Offer Except my Average-ness'
'Solitude v Loneliness'
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Does Ordinary have to mean dull? Is the extraordinary always an escape from the everyday? What if the mundane is really perpetually infused with wonder? Where did you see God today? What was He saying?
Welcome ... I’ve always been more attracted to the ordinary than the spectacular. For a long time I’ve sensed my ministry in life as continually trying to seek and understand, express and share, an awareness and appreciation of God in the everyday. I think this is important, not only for the sake of my own taste, but for everyone. If our talking about, and living for, God only appeals to the religious, then most people will be missed. If we know anything about Jesus it is that he went out of his way to encompass the ordinary, so that no-one would be overlooked. So, as I write here, I’ve no idea what I will say or where it will lead. No doubt I will reflect a lot on ‘Christian’ things, but I’m not particularly interested in narrowly religious questions, nor about church affairs. There will, probably, be much football, film and TV. An ordinary life indeed, but one looking for ‘rumours of glory’, I’m asking myself the questions I’ve listed above, and invite you to do the same…
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