http://www.digitalbranch.net Thoughts and reflections on Christianity and life. Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:53:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve left this blog fallow, in hopes that it might become a rich and verdant place yet again. The growing season has come and past, autumn’s failing sigh, and winter’s snow blossoms... yet I have no desire to return to these dry fields. It now seems superficial, a child’s cry ... http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/06/16/im-done-here/ I’d forgotten it. http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/04/26/stumbled-across-this-story/ ... at a coffeehouse concert -- outside, Lake Andrea’s waves are ragged as a sheer, granite cliff. I’m surrounding by LL’ers, a joyous, insouciant lot. I understand my distrust -- not of joy, but of the foundation of their joy -- I don’t see the imprint of eternity but of ... http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/04/07/some-notes-from-a-concert/ I pulled myself away, this morning, with less than my usual vigor. I felt sick, I was cold, my eyes wouldn’t stay open. I sloshed toward the kitchen and forced cereal into my mouth, but found the food unappealing. I warmed myself in the shower, but was still cold. As ... http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/04/04/a-rarity/ My mom found a cassette tape of my early speech. Three or four year old speech is funny: I had a fixation on Scooby-Doo, and spent the entire time referencing Scooby and Shaggy. For example, I told the tale of how I was a rabbit (I had to ask where ... http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/03/24/heh-2/ Where there is mystery, there can be hope. Where mystery does not dwell, there can be no hope -- merely expectation or despair. How can a man hope when he knows what will be? There is more hope in a man that knows but one thing (that the world is ... http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/03/20/hope-and-expectation/ I snapped some pictures, today: http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/03/19/sunday-snappings/ G.K. Chesterton was a prolific writer, at the turn of the last century. He was a newspaperman, a fiction writer, a philosopher, a theologian, an apologist, and one who unabashedly lived and loved life. I’ve read several of his apologetics, as of late. The two non-fiction books I’ve read are ... http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/03/14/chesterton/ ... of this bit of poem, as a result of an earlier conversation: There is no justice for my soul For my mind’s genius is defeat The more I know, the darker my soul The less I am able to see. http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/03/12/i-was-reminded/ ... I understand why Kierkegaard so often wrote indirectly, in pseudonym and in story and letter. His reason relates to how human learn morality -- through models, more than ideas. We observe how others live, take the good and discard the bad. While ideas are important, we are drawn to ... http://www.digitalbranch.net/2006/03/02/the-sun-proffers-i-accept-the-offer/