Link: Welcome to Witting Shire: Losing Our Wits.
As you will be able to tell immediately from this "opening post," Amanda and Jonathan Witt have entered the blogosphere and we are all the better for it. Although they have only posted for a week or so, I spent this morning reading all of their entries. They will be daily reading for me.
A couple of snippets:
"May we not walk heedless through our lives. Tend to the mind. Tend to the home. Tend to the soul."
This one is so good I wish I had written it myself (especially since I wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on the Trinity and Christian community):
Virtually everyone I know—theist or atheist, rebel or conformist—adopts the same framework for family life: At the beginning of the day each family member heads off in a different direction, and they only reunite at bedtime (if then).Is that a problem? Apparently so, for we live in a time of incomparable loneliness. We have more acquaintances than ever before, and fewer friends. We are over-stimulated and under-loved. We try to paper over the hole with pretend relationships, fantasizing about television families and movie stars; with alcohol and drugs; with more activities, more work, more superficial connections. Such salves may numb our loneliness, but they will never cure it.
The only cure is remembering—and living out—this truth: We are made in the image of a triune God. He is by his very nature a being of togetherness, of intimacy and unswerving commitment. And so are we.
Enjoy and be challenged. (thanks to Bill Hobbs for bringing the Witts to my attention)
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