Easter Week

This is Easter week. For many people this is simply "Spring Break" or "Spring Recess" or whatever other politically correct title. Whatever the schools and public institutions have agreed to call it, it is what it is and that is Easter week.

Easter is bizarre. Mostly it's bizarre because there are numerous chocolate bunnies, plastic eggs, and fake grass stuffed in baskets for people to purchase as they celebrate the resurrection of a dead man that said he was God and would prove that he's God once he was raised from death. No scholar can quite articulate how the bunny eggs and pastel wrapped candy corresponds to the reality that Jesus is still alive. The bizarre festivities associated with Easter will surely pick up as the week progresses. There will be

Take a Break

So, I haven't posted a blog entry in roughly 3 weeks. Considering that I started posting only a few weeks prior to that it might appear that I gave in and quit. Untrue. In reality what happened was a question that I have been rolling around in my head. The question is: are you consumed by things that don't matter? I asked myself that question at the beginning of April and I didn't know how to answer it. So I just kept asking until I got somewhere.

Where I got is important, but the way in which I got there is also important. The process started when I asked myself quite simply, "what do I value? what is important? what am I for?" I was caught off guard by these questions because initially I thought I should start to determine what are the things that don't matter before anything else. But once I started down that trail it lead me to begin to name just about everything. So, I learned that to define something in the affirmative by citing all the things that it is not, is a pointless waste of time and accomplishes nothing.