i’m interrupting my series for the week because as the title suggests i am coming against some inertia on a writing project. i’m trying to work on an article/post for a blog on christianpost.com and i just can’t overcome the inertia. all i really have to do is retell a story that’s already been told; i wanna retell it because it’s worth sharing. with my extensive high-school journalism background, i asked steph about the details of her time in haiti when they met a boy named evansbord. she was super helpful in answering the list of questions i gave her.
so i got her blog. her prompt reply to my laundry list of questions. yet i can’t generate the first sentence.
anyway. i think i have an idea now. but i will conclude this post.
i think i need to mic myself and say what i think aloud, like on the show felicity, which i actually have not seen an entire episode of, i only know that she would record audio letters – i wonder where i put my tape recorder, oh man, do stores even sell casette tapes anymore?! – and the idea’s always stuck. i remember thinking something once on the drive home from work and thought – hey, i should elaborate on that – but got distracted once i got home and forgot it.
there was this other thought i had earlier this week. i was thinking about seminary which somehow led to thinking about calvinism and arminianism and how we get stuck in this dichotomy trap; even though i dunno how, i believe both are right and not at odds with each other. and then it occurred to me – we probably wouldn’t bother with such questions and debates had we not eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. yeah, because we’d just know God Himself, just going about communion and fellowship with Him. we wouldn’t pause and stop, and think, now wait a second, God did you choose me or did i choose you? who cares? we’re together and that’s all that matters.
do you ever wonder what life would be like if we’d didn’t eat of that tree? like, would we all be vegetarians, for example?
also, i have taken to watching drivers while i am stopped at a red light. sure, i keep an eye out for when the light turns green and all, but i think it’s fun to watch people in their cars, spaces where people think no one’s watching them. i haven’t caught anyone picking their nose yet. i wonder what i look like when other people catch me singing in the car.
why does my voice sound so different when it’s recorded? why does it drop two octaves? i bought four half-hour lessons and i can choose between acting or voice and i think after watching a video of the praise set when i was on vocals, i have decided i need voice lessons.
okay. that was a good writing prompt. onto the article…
also i decided to go with a simple update alert instead of the blog in an email approach this time around because i’m just rambling and that’s not worth keeping in an inbox. or is it?
