Or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Flashing Cursor. Last night at 8:30pm I submitted an essay about the work of a third century north-African Bishop named Cyprian. It was due at midnight, and I hadn't started actually writing until the day before (when I spent about two hours on it). I wasn’t stressed or tired when I clicked that fateful Submit button, and had a great time writing it. I ended up spending … [Read more...]
Simplify
This is how we slow down and build a better life. “I’m busy” is a misdiagnosis. We are only so busy because life is so complex. These might sound like the same problem, but the hurried and victimising state of “busy” is the symptom of the true problem: escalating complexity, which mostly happens slowly and without us noticing. For most modern adults, it’s not possible to improve life by addition, because part of our … [Read more...]
A Hard World for the Soft Soul
Today during prayer I was thinking about how Jesus would respond with deep compassion whenever faced with the crisis of another. In the Gospels, he seems to have limitless energy for the needs of others, never too weary to pour himself out. We might imagine that this is simply because “Jesus is God”, supposing that his energy for all things is endless because of this unfair advantage. This would be a mistake, … [Read more...]
Why Trust a Humble God?
If God is not always controlling everything as some divine puppeteer, what does it mean to trust him? Trust him for what? If he doesn’t always “get his way” because his creation is both free and broken, what does it even mean to say that he's worthy of unbending confidence? These questions might seem reasonable at first, but they quickly disappoint any real interrogation. Why on earth should we demand an … [Read more...]
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