What career would you have undertaken if you got to choose again, knowing what you do now? It's a hard question. Mostly because of the law of unintended consequences. Or the butterfly effect. Or maybe something else. We might only be choosing between the devil we know and the one we don't know.
But the pondering is a good exercise. I'll bet I could have been rich. I know I would have known a lot more people than I do. I have to reign in my imagination here, because this could be a very public diary.
How much I can learn by listening. I owe this thought to a friend.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Yup. It's been a while.
But continue to search I do. I'm 71 now and time seems to be running short.
I am less concerned about that fact than I used to be. Maybe I'm just coming to terms with what I know to be fact: I am constrained by a slice of time that, in the course of same, becomes relatively smaller and smaller, both in absolute and relative terms.
Whatever is, is, and I might as well get used to the idea.
But I find that I am continually drawn back to the ideas and the narrative of Jesus. Maybe that's what faith is: that pull, that drawing back.
Today I'll try to empty my mind and see if the Spirit out there puts anything in it for me to think about.
But continue to search I do. I'm 71 now and time seems to be running short.
I am less concerned about that fact than I used to be. Maybe I'm just coming to terms with what I know to be fact: I am constrained by a slice of time that, in the course of same, becomes relatively smaller and smaller, both in absolute and relative terms.
Whatever is, is, and I might as well get used to the idea.
But I find that I am continually drawn back to the ideas and the narrative of Jesus. Maybe that's what faith is: that pull, that drawing back.
Today I'll try to empty my mind and see if the Spirit out there puts anything in it for me to think about.
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