A beginning is a very delicate time
I have long thought I would never have a blog. Who wants to make their journal public? And yet I'm always writing things in my journal I wish I could tell others about and start a dialogue on. If no one finds them interesting enough to engage with, that's alright. I'm happy to talk to myself.
So, I sit down in the morning with my freshly-ground coffee, made strong in a French press and poured into a delicate teacup with half-and-half and turbinado sugar, and I read a portion of the Greek New Testament. Well, let me be honest: I have the English open along with it and read them side-by-side because I'm not yet fluent enough in Greek to read it alone without much trial and tribulation with the translation. On occasion I do the same with the Hebrew Old Testament. Frequently what I read triggers thoughts and ideas, and since I can't think without wanting to write, I write my thoughts out in my journal as a conversation with God. Sometimes this takes the form of an analysis of a Greek word or Greek phrasing, which I love. Sometimes it brings up a memory of a theological or historical point I've recently learned in school or my own reading. Sometimes what I read makes me think of a situation I've been in recently or read about in the news or a psychology book I've read. Sometimes these things apply to me quite intimately; sometimes they're just about life in general. However they come about, they always teach me something about who God is and how He works. I love that.
So, I sit down in the morning with my freshly-ground coffee, made strong in a French press and poured into a delicate teacup with half-and-half and turbinado sugar, and I read a portion of the Greek New Testament. Well, let me be honest: I have the English open along with it and read them side-by-side because I'm not yet fluent enough in Greek to read it alone without much trial and tribulation with the translation. On occasion I do the same with the Hebrew Old Testament. Frequently what I read triggers thoughts and ideas, and since I can't think without wanting to write, I write my thoughts out in my journal as a conversation with God. Sometimes this takes the form of an analysis of a Greek word or Greek phrasing, which I love. Sometimes it brings up a memory of a theological or historical point I've recently learned in school or my own reading. Sometimes what I read makes me think of a situation I've been in recently or read about in the news or a psychology book I've read. Sometimes these things apply to me quite intimately; sometimes they're just about life in general. However they come about, they always teach me something about who God is and how He works. I love that.
posted by Emmet of Arolis | 3:18 PM
3 Comments:
Welcome! So you have joined us! I have always thought it would be good for you, my friend the writer, and other people should benifit from your thoughts! ;) I love how everything we study eventually teaches us something more of the character of God.
You did a great job with this first entry. It was very interesting to read, and I think people will be quite interested to hear what you have to say.
-luke
I am new come to faith. But in your blog about Joan of Arcadia, that eternal question of why would God allow awful things to happen and situations to exist, to me is answered by: it is up to us to do something about it, not God... He/She/the Holy Spirit is there to support us in our trying to better the situation, or at least strive for some relief... Not to better the situations. Adn funnily enough that is what Joan has to do all the time; God in that series as I see it, is there to put her to work, adn not to lie back and have him do it. The world is a mess... in some respects but who made that happen? Us, that who, so it is up to us to clean it up. The Mercy adn Love are there for support on our fumbling way. Not for doing our work.
But this is just my POV and I may be way out whack; as said, a newcomer.
Scurius, aka Squirrel on antoher list
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