For over a year I’ve been a blog voyeur! And the problem with voyeurism is that it quickly becomes a bad habit. The voyeur observes without participating, enjoys without contributing, is a taker without giving back. Mind you, I do now and again post comments – but that is always in response to someone else’s work, their willingness to comment, criticise,amuse, inform, annoy, encourage – and all in an open forum discussion.
So. Time to kick the habit of getting kicks from playing a spectator sport. This blog is the place where I want to comment, criticise, amuse, inform, annoy, encourage – and do unto others what they have been doing unto me. Every blog writer has a perspective, a sense of what they want to say and how to say it. Me too. The other day I read an article which quoted Thomas More in Robert Bolt’s play A Man for All Seasons. Make allowance for the gender specific language of the genre and the period:
"God made the angels to show him splendour – as he made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But man he made to serve him wittily in the tangle of his mind."
What does it mean to ‘serve God wittily in the tangle of our minds’? Have a think about More’s understanding of what humans were made for. Next blog I’ll try to explain why I think ‘living wittily’ is an interesting take on living wisely (OT) and following Jesus (NT).
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