This blog has in its inception the desire to connect. “Remedying disconnect” would then drive the writing, but the topics of the blog entries will actually be centered around my talks with Tim Margheim, who writes “Through a Glass Dimly” (http://www.aglassdimly.com).
Wittgenstein was convinced you won’t know what is going on in the world unless you can identify what stuff is in the world, and the relationships between those stuffs. Now there was a dude who felt some serious disconnect… I think I bonded with the idea of him when I found out how troubled his life was, his dis-belonging. I think Paul (Biblical author) could possibly relate (though maybe not at all?) – he was always at odds with the world, and etc… I mean – 2nd Tim – just get one whiff of that and you’re like – wooh! The scent of ALONE.
In the last few months I’ve been finding more and more in Paul’s writing that he talks about wanting to be with people. I think I tend to think of him more as a man focused on getting things done, rather than caring about people. So, when I begin to see (Not that I hadn’t seen it before, just that the words are actually beginning to make sense? You know how that goes? Like it was right in front of you, and you just didn’t get it until circumstances in your life turned your attention and understanding on its heel?) Paul writing at the beginning of his letters “I long to see you…” (Romans 1:10-12, 2nd Tim 1:4), my heart kind of softens a bit. I hope that keeps happening.
When I was in high school I had a pastor, Matt Cassidy, who would always say we should have a “Sharp mind, thick skin, and a soft heart.” Somewhere between grad school, the everyday, church, and work, it seems as if the adjectives in that laconic statement have desired to become confused with one another – and the heart has hardened, rather than the skin. What do you do with that, you know?
Prayer:
Veins relate to the petal as life givers. Innervation, so that we can feel as you feel, Lord, know as you know, in a very deep way, is a request I’m not going to give up on. If you could just set the night down on the day that we partake in the thoughts that are contrary to love, and a sound mind, or show us how to pull down the corners of those views (as if they were Vista, heheheh) – that would be great. Thank you… -J
