Garrison Keillor begins his A Prairie Home Companion monologs with the phrase “It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon” and then launches in to a discussion as to why it really hasn’t been all that quiet of a week.
Well, for me I could start out by saying ‘It’s been a quiet 8 months in my life’ but now let me share with you the rest of the story — a famous line from another great radio voice Paul Harvey.
As I reflect back over the last 8 or 9 months I believe I have had only 1 blog posting, written while on a retreat last spring. My tweets have really been limited to posting scriptures have in some way caught my attention. So why the silence? Well I guess I just haven’t had much to say. I have described these last few months as an information or knowledge gathering time. I have spent time reading a variety things — scripture, a number of books — Henry Nouwen and Spiritual Polaritiesby Wil Hernandez, Becoming Whole and Holy by Jeannine Brown, Carla Dahl and Wyndi Corbin Reuschling. I have spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to do when I grow up. I have just been busy gathering lots and lots of stuff. What I have failed to do is slow down and start putting all the pieces together. So I have slowly been pushing the pause button on the whole sale gathering of more…
I don’t know about you but my mind goes a lot of different directions when I ponder things — I make great use of mind mapping software and big white boards when I am downloading my pondering material. I put up all the random thoughts that I have and then I play connect the dots. I am always excited to see connections that come out of a bunch of seemingly unrelated blurbs.
If you are still reading this, thanks and you now have a glimpse at how my through process works and why I am the way that I am. So what have I learned and where am I headed. The biggest thing with regards to my blog is that it live in a new place. This past spring I put together and did a very soft launch of a new web site call LRT Ministry. You can read more about the ministry by hitting the home button above. In a nut shell LRT is an acronym for Loved, Redeemed and Transformed — Loved by God, Redeemed by Christ and Transformed by Spirit. What LRT Ministry allows me to do is gather in one place the various things that I do or hope to do in the not to distant future. This could also be the platform for part of my doctoral thesis which I will be beginning in January.
My goal for the near future is to have a weekly blog posting (hopefully on Mondays) as I begin to connect the dots and share with you my process and what God is teaching me. It is my hope that together we can be part of each others transformation process and grow in our understanding of God and who God wants each one of us to be.
The lead-off topic of discussion be a word that seemed to come up a lot in my ponderings — Authentic.