On Writing

Most students think that writing means writing down ideas, insights, visions. They feel that they must first have something to say before they can put it down on paper. For them writing is little more than recording a pre-existent thought.
But with this approach true writing is impossible. Writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us. The writing itself reveals what is alive.....The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

Henri Nouwen in Reflections on Theological Education.

Quoted on page 285 of Philip Yancey's Soul Survivor, without any page/chapter reference.

Slowness of Discovery

It has taken me an entire year to realise that the 'lock' on the door to the disability toilet in our office doesn't lock anything. Turns out that the real lock is further down the door. What I thought was the lock has something to do with a pin pad outside the door, which is presumably there if somebody wanted to make it really difficult to get into the toilet. Not what a person with a disability needs.

I only discovered all this the other day when someone else tried to come into the toilet while I was there.

Seems I have a talent for slowness of discovery...

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Professor Antony Flew, who became a believer in a Creator last year, presented his forthright views on Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion, in a recent article. His article, (click here), shows his key reasons for his belief in a Divine Intelligence.
He also makes it clear in his book, There is a God (page 213), that it's possible for an omnipotent being to choose to reveal himself to human beings, or to act in the world in other ways.
Professor Flew’s article is testimony to the developing thinking of someone who is prepared to consider the evidence and follow its implications wherever it leads.

Meanwhile, Dawkins continues to act like a teenager with acne who can't think beyond his new-found discovery that he's growing hair in funny places.

Footnote: There's a wide-ranging discussion relating to the argument between atheists and believers here; Flew's gradual changes of view are laid out clearly in the middle of the article.