I was just sitting her wondering, searching my "database" for what to write about when I thought, "I think about the same things a lot. I seem to want to write and focus on the same things over and over." I wonder how bad that is. I know, for instance, that it may not be the best blogging around. People who read blogs want to see new and varied content to satisfy their short attention spans. I tend to end up pushing on the same subjects from different angles. Hell, sometimes from the same angle. Perhaps my perception is that we still don't get it, that we're still figuring it out, so it still needs dealing with - so I deal with it.
There are some things I just don't worry myself about. Maybe I don't think they're important or I don't see what I could possibly do about it. So, if you see me not writing about certain things, that is likely why. Now, of course there are the very few subjects that I am pretty settled on, around which swirls a great mass of controversy, which I don't really want to get into in this arena. That's because I know what will happen if I do. I'll fight about some things, but not everything.
I think I have to get over whatever little guilt I have about writing on the same things over and over again. Objectively, I think it might be what I need to do. Like one of my favorite topics, spiritual formation, repetition is a good thing. We don't learn things, generally, unless they are repeated. Simply because something is explained once doesn't mean we "got it." Certainly not. We need to live with it and in it. We need to hear it and say it and hear it again. So, I think I'll say it again, and again, and again.
"Then, if we cannot as yet think alike in all things, at least we may love alike. Herein we cannot possibly do amiss." John Wesley
"Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross
is a man without a mission, and the cross without Jesus
is a burden without a reliever." Fulton J. Sheen
"...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self." Henri Nouwen
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