Bright Evening Star

I don't know if I don't have time to think of anything to say about what I'm reading, or don't have anything to say.
I suppose they are often one-and-the-same.


"When we try to explain it, we lose it. When we try to explain the stories which have grown up around God's love we lose the love in the midst of the explanations, because love defies explanations. What matters is not whether Adam and Eve were actual, provable, existing people or whether they had belly buttons, but that God in infinite love peopled this lovely little planet for us to care for and expected that we would love each other, and that we would therefore love the God who made it all.

As long as our explanations are stories, seeking after truth rather than fact, we need not fear them. But when they become finite answers to infinite questions they contribute less to knowledge than to divisions and hatred and tears in heaven.

Unless an answer is "I love you," it is apt to cause pain, not explanation."
p. 167

A Child Called 'It'

A quarter of the students in my class said that this was their favorite book, so I read it.

It's sad.

Irrestible Revolution

I joined a small group study (kinda) centered around this book. Some of the people in the study have truly beautiful lives lived for God. I found them to be inspiring and good to talk to twice a month.
Writing about the book would take a good bit of typing, which I may do someday, but not today.

Letter to a Christian Nation

I thought since this book was, in a way, addressed to me- or at least sort of, that I should read it. I needn't say much about how angry Mr. Harris is. I was sorry that he had some good points. There is a lot that has been done in the name of religion that has hurt the planet. There has been a lot done in the name of just about anything that has hurt the planet. There has also been a lot done in the name of God that has hurt people - with and without His blessing. (in reference to the God-ordered atrocities of the old testament) There is so much about God that I don't begin to understand.
like the massacres and all that He chooses not to intervene in.
I have only been able to rest in the fact that God has ultimately proven to be bigger, greater, and deeper than all that I do and do not understand about Him.

I don't understand gravity either. - I'm told that neither does anyone else.