Dances with Words

“Don’t shoot the messenger.”

“The medium is the message.”

Some people are so damned self-assured.

Some things have been happening about which I have mixed feelings.

1. We had a youth group meeting last night and I volunteered to do quite a bit of stuff.

2. The house we are renting is for sale. We can’t afford to buy it. Or anything else in Ocean Grove.

3. I am making our church website at the moment and I’m not sure how it’s going to turn out.

4. I have written another blog entry.

Hello everyone. I haven’t been around much lately. I’m undertaking a sort of internal investigation at the moment, trying to see what is ahead of us for this year and what I want to get out of it. And life. What do I want to get out of life?

Anyway, I picked up Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg in a bookshop in Barwon Heads on the weekend. It’s very good, a murder mystery set in the snow of Denmark, with characters that have migrated from Greenland. Greenland is still part of the kingdom of Denmark, so there’s a whole colonial thing going on. I like the book, it’s intriguing, the main character is Miss Smilla, a woman who grew up in Greenland and can read the signs well enough to tell that there’s something suspicious about the death of a young boy from her apartment block, even though there’s only one set of tracks in the snow. I am intrigued.

I’ll mention it again once I’ve finished.

Here’s a question I’ve just been pondering: do you think that wanting to be like God is a bad thing?

We are taught that we should be like God, we should want to be good and loving and merciful and, yes, even powerful and in authority (justly).

So when Satan wanted to be like God it wasn’t an evil thought, but maybe a Very Good One.

The problem is in the actions which developed from that thought. Satan made wrong choices about what actions he would take to be like God. But it’s still possible to think of the motivation as good.

Interesting.