08.28.06
hello godless sodomites
Just wanted everyone to know that I am, in fact, alive. However, lately I’ve been trying to look like I’m studying. That and I don’t really have anything to write about.
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hello godless sodomites
Just wanted everyone to know that I am, in fact, alive. However, lately I’ve been trying to look like I’m studying. That and I don’t really have anything to write about.
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Graduate School will do that to you. Glad to know you are still alive.
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I resent being called a godless sodomite. I’m not godless.
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You talkin’ to me?
I’ve been checking back here, hoping for some sane words in this mad world of Christian blogging. I’ve been disappointed. I need your sarcasm and wit, along with all the other smart stuff! But I understand the busy-ness and the writer’s block (or blah life, take your pick) completely. That’s the worst, wanting to write, nothing to write about. Been there, and I’ve written some pretty bad blog entries because of it.
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“Hello godless sodomites”
well, we’ve got a good start on the lyrics for a Tool song….
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Somebody’s been watching Stephen Colbert.
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re: your post title.
I don’t know how you found out but, please, don’t tell the seminary.
Good to be back, making the blog rounds.
Meg
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more like “sodless godomites”
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Wow. Finally I’ve found someone who, in many ways, seems to be on the same garden path as I am. I am in the most difficult few weeks of my life as I have recently realized . . . I don’t know truth. It scares me beyond belief (pun intended). I don’t know truth. It has also been an incredibly lonely time as I continue with life, trying to keep my “existential crisis” to myself. I have not told my family - my father is a pastor, whole family were missionaries, eldest sister is married to a missionary, and second eldest sister is married to a pastor (entrenched?). I have not told my friends. At present, I do not want their prayers. I do not want to feel under any emotional or other obligation to close my eyes again and trudge blindly forward. So, I stumble, instead, with eyes wide open.
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*sigh* i like reading what you have to say. here’s hoping that you’re getting on top of all that school work. both for you, and for us. grazie
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You have permanent grace from me, a fellow graduate student. Doctoral education sucks your brains out for the first 2 years.
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Val…you are not alone. This has happened to many of us…and we rebound in various ways. It takes real guts to admit doubt, lack of faith…or that your mind needs some true stimulation and reasoning. I have always related to the conversation between Jesus and a sick boys father in Mark 9:24 when the man said, “I do believe, please help my unbelief”.
The difficulty for us that grew up in pastors homes and 20 hours per childhood week in a church setting is that the programming is STRONG. Those human ties and controllers are very painful to overcome. It took me years of “wandering and wondering” in the wilderness in my 20s before I decided it was OK to doubt and work out my own faith without the concurrance of other humans. The hope is…on the otherside you will discover a new kind of faith…one that is uniquely yours…and find peace between yourself and your faith. Maybe call it, finding your SELF. The unique YOU that was meant to be. Again…you are not alone in this.
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Well said.
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Good luck with the studying, I start school tomorrow and am trying to appear moderately competent for the beginning of my new classes.
As for being a godless sodomite… I actually prefer the moniker “unchristian heathen scumbag” it just rings more true for me…
peace
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Ok, but what you write next had better be pretty damn cool. (no pressure)
Scott said,
August 28, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Graduate School will do that to you. Glad to know you are still alive.
dorsey said,
August 28, 2006 at 3:16 pm
I resent being called a godless sodomite. I’m not godless.
Crissi said,
August 28, 2006 at 11:34 pm
You talkin’ to me?
I’ve been checking back here, hoping for some sane words in this mad world of Christian blogging. I’ve been disappointed. I need your sarcasm and wit, along with all the other smart stuff! But I understand the busy-ness and the writer’s block (or blah life, take your pick) completely. That’s the worst, wanting to write, nothing to write about. Been there, and I’ve written some pretty bad blog entries because of it.
Bridgier said,
August 29, 2006 at 9:16 am
“Hello godless sodomites”
well, we’ve got a good start on the lyrics for a Tool song….
Kevin said,
August 29, 2006 at 9:51 am
Somebody’s been watching Stephen Colbert.
meg said,
September 1, 2006 at 2:06 pm
re: your post title.
I don’t know how you found out but, please, don’t tell the seminary.
Good to be back, making the blog rounds.
Meg
jeff said,
September 2, 2006 at 7:11 am
more like “sodless godomites”
Val said,
September 2, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Wow. Finally I’ve found someone who, in many ways, seems to be on the same garden path as I am. I am in the most difficult few weeks of my life as I have recently realized . . . I don’t know truth. It scares me beyond belief (pun intended). I don’t know truth. It has also been an incredibly lonely time as I continue with life, trying to keep my “existential crisis” to myself. I have not told my family - my father is a pastor, whole family were missionaries, eldest sister is married to a missionary, and second eldest sister is married to a pastor (entrenched?). I have not told my friends. At present, I do not want their prayers. I do not want to feel under any emotional or other obligation to close my eyes again and trudge blindly forward. So, I stumble, instead, with eyes wide open.
Michael said,
September 5, 2006 at 1:26 am
*sigh* i like reading what you have to say. here’s hoping that you’re getting on top of all that school work. both for you, and for us. grazie
Nicole said,
September 7, 2006 at 11:05 pm
You have permanent grace from me, a fellow graduate student. Doctoral education sucks your brains out for the first 2 years.
UR4given said,
September 8, 2006 at 11:07 am
Val…you are not alone. This has happened to many of us…and we rebound in various ways. It takes real guts to admit doubt, lack of faith…or that your mind needs some true stimulation and reasoning. I have always related to the conversation between Jesus and a sick boys father in Mark 9:24 when the man said, “I do believe, please help my unbelief”.
The difficulty for us that grew up in pastors homes and 20 hours per childhood week in a church setting is that the programming is STRONG. Those human ties and controllers are very painful to overcome. It took me years of “wandering and wondering” in the wilderness in my 20s before I decided it was OK to doubt and work out my own faith without the concurrance of other humans. The hope is…on the otherside you will discover a new kind of faith…one that is uniquely yours…and find peace between yourself and your faith. Maybe call it, finding your SELF. The unique YOU that was meant to be. Again…you are not alone in this.
Scott said,
September 11, 2006 at 8:53 am
Well said.
Jason said,
September 11, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Good luck with the studying, I start school tomorrow and am trying to appear moderately competent for the beginning of my new classes.
As for being a godless sodomite… I actually prefer the moniker “unchristian heathen scumbag” it just rings more true for me…
peace
Sarcastic Lutheran said,
September 12, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Ok, but what you write next had better be pretty damn cool. (no pressure)