Out With A Whimper and Some Questions
Between school, vacation (drove a couple thousand miles), and a bout with flat on my back illness, I am ready to petition for some real vacation. The kind where you sleep as long as you need to and still manage to carve out huge portions of the to-do list. And with the New Year just around the corner, I feel like I should have some great ideas of resolutions for the coming year. Mostly, I have just had more questions than thoughts about things like resolutions. Like what the heck to do with this blog!? Going back to school has caused a cataclysmic shift in focus. Somewhere in the back on my pin-headed mind, I had this picture of just taking a few classes without it really changing anything. HA! Education always changes things if only just the things you need to rearrange to make room for it. The time I used to spend in those apologetic conversations that leaked over into this blog is gone and instead I am reading textbooks and writing papers. Trust me. It’s really not blog content. Somewhere in all of this I can’t believe that there isn’t a different sort of blog content to come out of these life changes. I’m not sure what it is yet. I can’t believe that I’ll completely stop writing about apologetics. All it will take is some stranger on the street telling me how I worship the Pope and I’ll be off to the races, but I am having those sorts of encounters infrequently these days.
So I find myself at the end of the year, whimpering a little from a schedule that I haven’t yet quite gotten a handle on and struggling to find my bearings with what comes next. There seems to be more real life interaction and less room for the internet and that shift seems to be provoking a shift in mindset from “What do I think about that?” to “Well now what am I going to DO about it?” And wouldn’t you know it, the real life problems are always messier than those hypothetical doctrinal questions that are so fun to play with.
It’s feels a little weird to be doing this thinking “out loud” but I just didn’t want anyone who’s still hanging around that I’ve abandoned this whole project.
BTW….I do have a “vintage” Sister Spitfire apologetics post on the back burner. I hope to have it up soon.
Happy New Year to you all!! And tomorrow, I’ll have a question that’s been bugging me that hopefully, you all will have some thoughts on.
