sorry for not showing up in the past days… I know it’s not good for the flow if I take so much time to answer… but life’s just too intense at the moment, got sooo much work to do. It’s so difficult: how shall I work through faith decisions, existential issues, meetings with God, frustrations, etc. while at the same time trying to lead an active professional and social life? It’s a mess… …too much for my old soul 
Have not been doing too well these past days. Recently I woke up and realized that in my dream I was banging my fists on a bible because I was so angry at it!
I’m just about to finish Tom Wright’s “Simply Christian” (which is a good book! I hope to write about it sometime soon here. I like how he compares thinking about God to staring into the sun).
I also finished Donald Miller’s “Blue Like Jazz”. Great book! I think some people are put off by how he sometimes acts like the “cool guy” and stresses that there are also cool christians (who don’t like Bush and who smoke and all that). But this showing off in the sense of “we’re cool, too” didn’t bother me (I guess he knows enough people for whom this message is liberating and so it made sense to have it in the book). Anyway, what I liked about the book: It was difficult to put away! There are so many books I try to read because I consider them to be extremely important for making up my mind about my faith and I crave for reading them. But even those books that are important to me and which I am eager to read just tire me and I have to work through them. Don Miller, in contrast, just takes us on this enjoyable, touching, deep, unsystematic journey through his inner life, his faith and the things he’s experienced. He didn’t help me sort out any of my difficulties, but I felt understood. His honesty and writing style captured me.
All the best to anybody hanging around here…
hope to give my view on some of Big Dan’s bible thoughts soon…
