Another week!
1. My sister should be here anytime this morning. She'll be staying until Sunday morning, I think, then heading back home with my nephew J. We will miss him....such a sweet boy!
2. I realized this week that I can no longer put Mary's hair up while she's standing. She's gotten too tall for me. She has to sit down now if I'm going to do her hair for her...Yikes! It seems like she's grown six inches in the past month!
3. My nephew's question for me this week: "Aunt Belinda, how do they keep the war where they want it to be?" Good question, I thought. I tried to answer, but nothing I said seemed to satisfy him so I told him to ask Uncle Matt. :-)
4. J saw me working on a doodle letter and asked me to do one for him. It's so good for your ego to have someone at your elbow saying, "How did you get so good at drawing, Aunt Belinda?" Ha!
5. I picked up The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos yesterday at our local independent book store. I've heard of it before and Peterson recommends it in The Jesus Way. I've only read a few pages, but here's something interesting from page 2:
"Well, as I was saying, the world is eaten up by boredom. To perceive this needs a little preliminary thought: you can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eatr and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off the drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always 'on the go.' Perhaps the answer would be that the world has long been familiar with boredom, that such is the true condition of man. No doubt the seed was scattered all over life, and here and there found fertile soil to take root; but I wonder if man has ever before experienced this contagion, this leprosy of boredom: an aborted despair, a shameful form of despair in some way like the fermentation of a Christianity in decay."
This was written in 1937...makes me think of all our "busyness" today. I also think the picture of boredom as dust very appropriate. Boredom does just kind of settle all over you. Food for thought...
6. Here's a blog for your inspiration from a textile designer in Brooklyn: ~>O<~
7. I am going to learn how to use my camera. Iam. Really. We've had it for a long time but I nevr really learned the ins and outs of it. I lost the battery charger for a year or so and started using a little Cannon of Matt's. A friend gave me her old charger, so I'm back in business Here's a Digital Photography School I'm going to start off with.
2 Buzzes...What do YOU think?:
I love your doodles! Confession~ you have inspired me to try my own, but alas, I need a lot more time. Any words of advice or encouragement? :-)
Blessings!
Boredom, wow, what a topic! I oft wonder whether Jesus was bored while on mission. My introspection on the topic suggests (at least to me) that much of activity is a human attempt to reach or achieve a sense of purpopsefulness for which we have a deep, insatiable craving. However, activity (like other things) seems only to satisfy for the moment. Perhaps if all of our activities were aligned with our life purppose and mission they would not becpome boring. My other learning is that my activity is often a defense mechanism for striving to be perfectly content in His presence. Oh, how perfect love would cast out all fear and bring peace and security. Oh, boredom may just be the long-term result of human directed activity. So, maybe not that different from worshiping Baal. Still an idolatrous affront to Him.
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