Its now gone 11, I'm tired, got a headache and am slightly grouchy ... but only slightly. Have done nothing but stare at a computer screen for hours the past two nights while trying to write a class conference paper on the beatitudes (Matt. 5:3-12). Embodied radical discipleship ... the eschatalogical tension in living in the now-and-not yet of the Kingdom of God (yes I know Matthew says heaven!) ... what does it mean to be a peacemaker ... what does blessing (makarios) actually refer to ... what about justice and righteousness, meekness and mercy ...
Love it ... there's so much good stuff there ... great red letter stuff (Shane Claiborne) ...
Yet in doing that I have missed a planning meeting concerning social justice and acts of kindness being organised within YF (basically how we can model for the young people and help them live out embodied beatitudes around East Kilbride) ...
I have also missed a worship practice (which I would probably have had to miss on account of the meeting anyway) as well as cell group (space where discipleship is discussed and developed).
Frustrated ... yes I am!!!!!!!!!!!
However, such is the balance of trying to study and have a life beyond books and computer screens, as was pointed out to me today by another student in the preaching lab ...
'Be careful, for writing books is endless, and much study wears you out.'
Ecclesiastes 12:12 (b)
Frustrated ... worn out ... I head to bed ...
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