July 20 (looking back to July 9 and 10)
Oh no! It’s happened again! Here it is July 20, and I haven’t posted since July 9. Actually, I’ve done a lot of posting over on my My Church Journey blog, and been involved in a number of conversations on other blogs, but somehow time has flown by here with no posting.
I see that on the afternoon of July 9 I noted in my journal that I was having a hard time focusing; my brain seemed to be knocked out by the heat. Mid to high 90s F outside, and nearly 80 inside, despite my best efforts to keep the house cool! Well, I guess that’s the best excuse I can come up with.
On July 10, I wrote a blog post on Extending grace over at My church Journey, thinking about how we react to and treat those who we see as particularly evil people – in this case a young man whom police have warned the community is a pedophile. While I certainly understand people’s fears, and do think this particular situation has been handled poorly by the various social services, I have wondered how we can better react to and deal with this kind of situation. Anyway, you can take a look at that post, if you are interested.
That same day, I read a facebook posting by a young woman I know who has an autoimmune disease that has turned her life upsidedown. As if that isn’t enough, there have been a number of other tragic circumstances in her close family – degenerative disease, childhood abuse, accidental death… None of which were “preventable” or “deserved” or whatever. And yet, other families appear to have comparatively few severe problems (though as onlookers we no doubt often know very little about what people are really going through). Wondering about that…
