the urgent marches it's regiments of details down the streets making a show of it's tyranny, pulling it's drably painted phone call nukes behind litigation tanks driven by family budget sergeants. when i pull myself from the parade, i've found that it has pounded my mind to mush.
all those boots stepping in unison.
i could fill you all in on the details of my first son's birth and his first week and how that has changed life, so on and so forth. but the fact is that i'm still absorbing it all. at this point, i've nothing to add to the litany of cliches about this sort of thing. don't get me wrong, i'm ecstatic. but the things that get me to that point are generally the most difficult for me to put into words. the progression of ease in writing has always moved, for me, from pain, to pleasure, to love. love takes the most work, the most time, the most thought.
give me a while, it'll come.
instead, i thought i'd intro an idea i've had for the next few weeks here.
there are five truths that are fundamental to my faith. when these go, i go. they make the mold that my life slides into. and i work to make sure that's the case, and not the other way around. that's when we start having problems - pragmatically and theologically. they're five phrases that, while not written in the bible, sum up truths that fill the pages of scripture.
i thought that i might take a few weeks to run through these five phrases and what they mean at their roots followed by what they mean in life.
for those of you who were wondering, this process will explain my recent tattoo. for those of you who didn't know or care about the tat, it'll just be an opportunity for conversation.
first installment coming soon:
SOLA SCRIPTURA
