… according to this blog : (Rachel Held Evans)
Man. When reading the different things she links to, I started out boiling with rage, then moved to incredulous laughter (is this guy for real???) and then sadness. *sigh* Its scary that we can get things so, so wrong…
Lord, have mercy.
Ever feel like someone has read your mind and published it on the internet????
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html
Its been a while.
I’ve been visiting my wp dashboard (read: stats) regularly and inwardly bemoaning my lack of writing of late. It makes me a little sad, as I really do enjoy the old blogosphere. I guess I’ve been hit by a kind of blog-block – a lot of things crossing my mind to write about, but never quite discovering the time to write.
So, here I find myself scribbling a quick hello to my faithful reader(s??) – realising that perhaps its because I was too lazy to search through the too-slow-for-words on screen tv guide on my digibox, thus resorting to switching the tellybox off that indicates that facebook is not the only stealer of my life and time, but rather the tv. Hmmm… AND I don’t even like it that much!
Life to the fool…
There are, I suppose, many things going on for me in my small corner – plenty to be keeping the wee head ticking over. Like, I spent some time this term thinking about biblical inspiration and interpretation. I thought about blogging about it, but figured my regurgitation of the scholarship of others may not exactly be all that riveting. But perhaps some sort of summary of my findings or my journey might be helpful to me and… er… well, interesting for you (if you’re into that sort of thing!).
I’ve enjoyed hearing some stuff about the Incarnation; I’ve been surprised by some teaching on self-esteem I thought I was going to hate; I’ve had to distill some of my thoughts on singleness in order to try and ‘teach’ some stuff to recent graduates; and I’ve embarked on a voyage of 100% support-raising to go work with a church in France… All in all, yes… there’ve been some big things going on. AND my friend cut me a fringe.
Its all go over here.
Filed under bible, blogging, discipleship, France/French, random
When I was younger (so much younger than today), I wasn’t much into fads and hobbies. My mother’s distaste for anything that encouraged consumerism (eg plastic dummies, Barbies, psychedelic bracelets made out of laces…) meant that I was never so fortunate to be bought every new fangled object of primary school desire. However, the closest I got to fad indulgence was that for several years one of my Christmas presents was the ‘Big Comic’ Annual. Lots of comic strip reading for the discerning younger reader. Contained within included Desperate Dan, Minnie the Minx and the like. One type of which always stuck in my head: Good news, bad news.
So, here, for your entertainment in these rainy summer months is my recent Good news, bad news…
Good news – Small Corner had a lovely time in the Republic. Good times were had involving ‘grape juice’, a sofa, a movie.
Bad news – my laptop wanted to join in the fun but he and ‘grape juice’ didn’t get along too well.
Good news – I’d been smart enough to know that I’m dumb enough that something like this might happen, so have been paying insurance for donkeys.
Bad news – Bought the laptop off PC World and their customer service is sh*te so laptop’s departure for the fixing place has been delayed by nearly three weeks.
Good news – I’m a little less addicted to the multi-tasking tv and surfing. My wrists are recovering from the RSI.
Bad news – Blogging curtailed.
Good news – my housemate and her pretty macbook got home from camp on Saturday so am being kept in the online fashion with which I am accustomed.
Bad news – I REALLY REALLY want a Mac.
Good news – I can’t afford a Mac just now so won’t be sacrificing my soul to the spirits of astheticism just yet.
Bad news – I REALLY REALLY REALLY want a Mac.
Good news – I get to use Housemate’s so that when… er… if I ever buy one, the transition will be less taxing.
Your Correspondant, wishing she’d thought of this way of signing off before Zoomtard did.
Okay, so a while ago I posted about discipleship asking a bunch of questions and got really very little response… I actually WOULD appreciate some input from people about this, so at risk of appearing needy, I am posting again!
The crux of it is the following…
Discipleship. Are there methods to the madness? What are those ‘difficult questions’ that so many claim they need to be asked? What does ‘being intentional’ really look like? Okay, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all model, but surely there must be some principles somewhere to work from?
Really my question is this: If true change is brought about by the Holy Spirit, how do I BEST play my part in facilitating that work? Any suggestions?
Filed under blogging, discipleship
Blogging, when it is done well, delights me in many different ways. Just today my blog surfer spewed up fellow-bloggers’ musings on church and government, the memories of a bike and a story about a box of incontinence pads.
Blogging, when it is done well, can be as engaging as a movie thriller, as enthralling as a book you just can’t put down and because it is real life from real people is often incomprehensibly fulfiiling, raw and beautiful…
Blogging, when it is done well, can breathe love, joy, freedom, peace, friendship, vision, hope… Life.
Blogging gives me insight into the beautful minds of others that I wouldn’t ordinarily get.
I might be a geek, but I love it.
Filed under beauty, blogging, creativity, happiness is, love, random
Having been the pioneer of the 365 movement on the Emerald Isle (she declared modestly), I’ve decided to endeavour to inspire you to include something else in your small corner of the blogosphere…
New Year’s Eve – the day to pause and reflect on a year gone by. In this, the first full year of my blog, this is an attempt to draw a blogpicture of that year. I have selected one post from each month of the past year in My Small Corner for your reading pleasure (well, its always nice to have something mindless to read on New Year’s Day, right??)
January: the calm before and after the storm of a few difficult months: Precious
February: this poem – I am Right
Your arrogance makes me uncomfortable
Not just because it is wrong, but because I am right.
Your certainty that you’ve got it makes my blood boil
Like milk seething quietly then
Exploding
Bursting boils of white which rapidly run out of steam
Leaving behind the sticky, wrinkly skin of my own certitude.
March: a lighter interlude as Kicked by an Elephant decided to get Vomited over by a dead cow
April: I realised
Life is big,
And I don’t get it.
And I’m kind of tired of not getting it.
That’s a little sentence, but really its big.
Very big.
A bit like life
May: an entry flowing out of an April visit to France where I left another little piece of my heart
June: the nature of joy and sin
July: A conversation to remind me to keep praying:
242 Days
“Its been eight months,” he said.
“Eight months?” she replied. “Gosh, time flies.”
“Its 242 days, actually.”
242 days of life without his wife.I wonder how long it takes before you stop counting.
August: An interesting take on leading worship – sock-spinning…
September: The Credit Crunch – I wonder now that this economic downturn is continuing if these people realise flying cheaply to their second home is the least of their worries?!?
October: The monumental end of a Gilmore Girls era
November: Inspired by friends describing their lessons from living abroad: Thirst
When I listen to you live my throat feels dry
My lips crack and dry up,
Thirsty for water that breathes deeply
Into my longing.
…
Lifting the cup to my mouth I hesitate,
Pursed lips tentatively gasping,
Drawing you in like hot tea that might blister my tongue
Rendering all else tasteless.
…
But I’d rather drink you down
(with
– no fear of getting burnt –
reckless
gulping
drafts)
Drink you down to the depths
Of sweet Spirit, and of Truth
And of grace.
December: A flashback which comes to more sense in retrospect.
What about you…?
Filed under blogging, change, perspective, random, story
In response to my birthday rant, some felt hard done by and therefore, this is a formal apology to all those currently writing very entertaining and hearty blogs who don’t make it onto my wordpress blog surfer reading list…
I’m sorry you chose blogspot rather than wordpress.
😉
Its my birthday. I like people knowing when its my birthday. So I thought I should just let you know that.
Its probably the ‘baby of the family’ thing. I like the attention.
Seeing as its my birthday, I get a free rant…
The blogosphere is largely a cold and lonely place at the minute. I mean, no-one is writing anything. Even I have been reduced to pretentious displays of my poetic ramblings into situations very few people would understand.
I say ‘no-one’, but really that means no-one is writing stuff I understand plus the actually rather limited scope of my whole blog-community is hardly worldwide.
I say ‘even I’, but really that’s hardly surprising considering one of my first offerings on the alter of self-adulation expression was a poem about a teddy bear. Hardly the groundbreaking stuff this world needs.
At which point I need to remind myself of the humble beginnings of this blog were tagged as the ‘random musings of a self-confessed un-intellectual’ (from which heated disagreements quickly ensued).(I say ‘heated’, but really I mean mildly spiced in a coconut and buttery non-heating korma curry kind of way).
Thus it is I come full circle and present to you this random musing from me in my small corner. And you HAVE to like it because its MY birthday.
So there.
Thanks! 🙂
Filed under blogging, creativity, random
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