For some time now, I have been aware that I have not written very much about the God of my 'On God and all sorts'.
By some unintended happy chance, I had two sites called janjotting and the idea grew in my mind that it might be better to separate my posts into two groups, which, courtesy of husband and son, R, I have been able to do; so now for a new stage of the adventure.
I strongly suspect that my motives are not all laudable. I'm probably worried that 'God thoughts' might seem off-putting for some and 'all sorts' might seem trivialising for others.
Be that as it may, thinking and wanting to write about God has been one of the most important threads of my life, certainly from about the age of ten. In fact, I thought everybody felt the same, the way you do at that sort of age. It didn't take me too long to discover that they didn't.
I am not a theologian, I have never studied religion apart from at school and, much later, a distance learning course on teaching RE in a Catholic school. My only qualifications are a lifelong belief in and love of God and a brain which won't stop thinking thoughts and ideas that keep shouting out to be shared (yes, I do know it's actually me).
It honestly doesn't matter to me if anyone chooses to read my jottings or not. Of course I hope they might and will be very chuffed if they do, but the point is the choice is there. All those thoughts don't just have to go on echoing in my mind and cluttering up my life on myriads of slips of paper and scrawled-upon notebooks everywhere.
Through the wonder of the internet, people like me can achieve these dreams; what an amazing joy and privilege.
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