It's been a little while... (short version)

My apologies to Watershed of Alibis and co. for not getting out a response to "The Great Conversation" (let alone posting anything else) since I began my blog in August of LAST YEAR. Absurd? Absolutely. Especially considering I've started and not completed about five posts since (yes, they are still sitting in my drafts folder), including a response to the initial and only installment of "The Great Conversation." There are many reasons, but no excuses.


I hope to return to this more regularily with personal updates, revelations and responses to other writings, music, movies, conversations and other experiences. In the meantime, I'm just learning to take life in stride with more consistency and integrity.


Also, I read and was encouraged by this recently. I hope you take hope from it.


Jeremiah 31: 21-26 (NIV)


"21 "Set up road signs;
put up guideposts.
Take note of the highway,
the road that you take.
Return, O Virgin Israel,
return to your towns.


22 How long will you wander,
O unfaithful daughter?
The LORD will create a new thing on earth—
a woman will surround [b] a man."


23 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "When I bring them back from captivity, [c] the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: 'The LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling, O sacred mountain.' 24 People will live together in Judah and all its towns—farmers and those who move about with their flocks. 25 I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint."


26 At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me."

(*This passage was copied and pasted from http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2031;&version=31;)