Thank you once again...

I just wanted to thank everyone who visited this past week, and left such kind notes.

I must say I enjoyed the attention! *lol* I think I've been in a posting frenzy, a little.

Why? Somewhat because of being blogger of the week, but also because my husband and I are discussing making a break with a lot of the technology in our lives. I have a sinking feeling that my blogging days are numbered.

Dh has read a few books by this French philosopher named Jacques Ellul. The Technological Society is a great book. Very hard to read, requiring great concentration and thought. Fortunately my dh is able to wade through and give me the highlights! It's so challenging and thought provoking. So that kind of started it.

Also, we've been reading and discussing a book by this guy named Shane Claiborne. He is part of a group in Philly called The Simple Way. They are doing an amazing work with the abandoned and forsaken people and places. They go into houses, fix them up, live in community and share a common purse while getting to know the neighbors, help kids with homework, give out clothes and food, etc... Their whole way of thinking, and goal to get back to authentic living and following of Christ, is almost incomprehensible because I'm so far away from that kind of reality. Here's what they say.

Our Mission is:
"To Love God. To Love people. To Follow Jesus."
We're giving that our best shot.

Shane talks about how so often we give to charity, we go for a day and help someone...that part of our lives is entirely separate from our day to day living. The two don't mix, and he says that they should. That "work" with the lowly and downtrodden should be our life.

Arghh....I'm terrible at communicating these things. Just get the book...or read a sample chapter here.

Anyways, after all the talking we've done the past few years about how to truly follow Jesus, and questions we've asked, this has come the closest...indeed, we believe that it has the answers to those questions. It's definitely not what I want to hear, but I think it's the right thing to move towards. Talking isn't good enough...now we have to do something. Kind of scary, really. Moving out of my comfort zone always is. And just rejecting traditional church and Christianity isn't the answer either.

So if I actually can make myself give these things up, then I'll come and say goodbye. The TV isn't so much the problem...I think I can live without. It's the computer and internet. I have convinced myself that it's vital to my life...it almost IS my life, at times. Here I have my friends, and lots and lots of information. I'm *addicted* to information. I can get the precise recipe I want in less than 10 minutes time. I can write my family and send pictures in the blink of an eye. It's how I "meet" people and communicate and stay in touch. *sigh* Kind of sad, in a way. I stay in my house, avoiding actual human contact and relationships, which is what matters most. This would be good to force me out into my community, to meet people that need my help and that can help me. It's not fun or pretty. I'm not good at loving the unloveable, or even the unlikeable. And staying in my comfy little house doesn't allow God to supernaturally overcome my human and wrong feelings and show His true work.

Argh....the end is at hand.