That's a line from one of my favorite books - "From the Corner of His Eye" - by one of my favorite authors - Dean Koontz. He uses it to describe what one of his characters is experiencing as she ponders some strange and definitely unexpected happenings in the life of her family.
And, it describes well what I hope this Blog will become - a place to faithfully nibble on the mysteries of life, faith, the Bible, meaning, God, purpose, and more.
Since a passion in my life is helping people to engage the Bible in a real way... taking it off of the shelf or out of the pew rack and putting it into their daily lives and thinking... that will be a focus of what I write here. Sometimes it will be serious. Sometimes it will be humorous. At all times, my intention will be to be faithful to what the Scriptures reveal about God and his will for us is as part of his good and dearly loved creation.
I imagine that I will share not just my thoughts - that would only be fun and interesting for a while - but those of authors and others that challenge and inspire me. And not only those whose thoughts I agree with. Sometimes the best conversations - the most spirited, the most inspiring - are those we have with people whose views and understanding of life is quite different than our own.
At other times, though, it is from the pen or mouth of another that we hear some piece of our heart expressed with words that we couldn't put together ourselves, but when we hear them we know they have struck a sympathetic chord in us.
For me, one such quote comes from a man named William Willimon. Willimon is a United Methodist minister, an author, and former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University. One of his quotes that strikes that sympathetic chord in me - and that I want to leave with you - is this:
"The good news of Jesus is so odd that we never get so used to hearing it or living in accordance with it that we don't need to hear it again."
What do you think? Can we hear the Good News - the words and story of the Bible - enough? Or is there always room for a bit more?
Something to ponder....
