I should be finishing a paper on John Wesley’s theology of the nature of God, but one of my 2010 resolutions was to blog every day. Today is 18 January and I have one post and an insipid one on butter at that, so in continuing my irresponsible procrastination I am blogging in an attempt to keep at least one of my 2010 resolutions. I like to write and for nearly three years I have been consumed by papers on theology–which do pique my interest, but sometimes I need an escape from the weightiness of deep theological ponderings. I used to be in the habit of journaling and carving out time for creative writing, letting my imagination roam untethered, allowing my mind to explore nonsense or reflect on everyday happenings. But as a grad student I have a black hole of deadlines, so I, ever the procrastinator, have lived the past two and a half years from assignment to assignment, wanting ever so much to believe that grades cannot and will not be my motive to do work, but fully knowing that I do need passing grades to receive a degree which will allow me to get a job and enter the adult world. Living from paper to paper, reading to reading is not much of a life unless you have time to digest and reflect, so my hope is that some of what I am learning will work its way into this blog–and of course I hope to continue to write nonsense reflections peculiar to my mind because they do reveal thoughts that I rarely get to share, thoughts probably not proper for a future preacher, but to suppress them is to suppress me and I need an outlet for outlandish musings. So, I plan to write honestly and openly, sharing the many dimensions of me. To writing in the New Year!
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