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a post for thoughts and questions

a series of blurbs about things I’m thinking and/or questions I’m asking

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2.1.2024

• For those of you who might not know, I used to like writing. Really and truly. Then, like often in life, *things happened* to cast a shadow over the process. Now it just feels hard almost all the time. But last week? Last week brought a glimpse of the old days when inspiration melded into words on a page. I wrote with gladness. And even though the editor in me knew the piece contained three subjects that could themselves be stand-alones, I decided I didn’t care and published it anyway.

• Is it normal to enjoy doing a thing even though you know it will make you nervous every time? That’s me with public speaking.

• The kids, Brad and I have been watching the sitcom The Middle from start to finish. We have enjoyed it so much that we mourned when we entered the final season. The other night we watched the final episode and it made me sad. Together, we’re invested in the family and their lives. And when that happens, there’s no great way to end something…it’s hard to say goodbye both to the show and to the sweet family time. But like my middle said: “Well, we can just start it over.” She’s got a point.

• I recently finished Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. What a great read! I was especially blown away with his assessment of the psalms, and I’m still thinking about it. If what he writes is accurate, it has major implications for reading and praying the psalms: “A psalm that we cannot utter as a prayer, that makes us falter and horrifies us, is a hint to us that here Someone else is praying, not we; that the One who is here protesting his innocence, who is invoking God’s judgment, who has come to such infinite depths of suffering, is none other than Jesus Christ himself. He it is who is praying here, and not only here but in the whole Psalter.”¹

• A significant question I’ve had rolling around in my brain for awhile is this: As a human, is it possible to outgrow a place, much like a plant outgrows its pot?

What do you think?

1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1954), 45.

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