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fire

rich w — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:01:09 +0000

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create

rich w — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:14:27 +0000

I guess i’m trying to balance in my mind:

God: inventing the concepts of time, space, matter and life (creation)
Vs
Me: scribbling on a piece of paper or writing a little song about girls (creation?)

I’m not trying to say human creativity isn’t important or god-infused, i’m just wondering if we overstate it sometimes. After all, isn’t human creativity just a new combination of things that already existed before in a new/surprising way?

What do people think?

green grass

rich w — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:07:22 +0000

scars

rich w — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:35:40 +0000

direction

rich w — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:10:00 +0000

hard to swallow

rich w — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:10:00 +0000

Paradox

rich w — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:17:53 +0000

I think one of the starkest tensions in faith is between being content and always striving.

I rather brashly assert that most christians are torn to shreads by unessesary guilt becasue they focus so much on their we-have-not-arrived, worst-of-sinners, do-not-abuse-grace imperfections that they completely ignore the glory-unto-glory, love-wider-than-the-sea, abundant-life flipside.

The truth is probably more balanced but, either way, the tension remains.

whispers

rich w — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:20:47 +0000

miracles

rich w — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:44:29 +0000

Knowing fully that it’s a stupid question that isn’t worth answering, I was thinking the other day: what miracles would Jesus be doing now if had been born in an outhouse in Hackney thirty years ago?

In this land of plenty, surely he wouldn’t be giving us MORE food or wine?
And what about healing? Would it really be that impressive beyond the whole freak-show-ness of it? Would the actual impact of healing a blind man be any more impressive than cataract opperations or pharmaceutical treatments of heart burn?

stitch

rich w — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:10:17 +0000