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Dear reader...

According to the site tracker, I'm the only one who still reads/views this blog. Interesting.

Which means I could write just about anything and no one would care. ;)

Hmm... Perhaps this is just too public of a forum to air grievances. Not that I really have any, anyway.

I did read an interesting article on NPR yesterday:

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/28/166022894/mormonism-a-scrutinized-yet-evolving-faith#

I thought it was insightful.

I also think it's interesting to consider that my own faith is evolving. Like Sister Brooks points out in the article, there are main, core beliefs that people hold to, and then there are the satellite beliefs that we don't know much about but are nonetheless interesting and have some gravitational pull. Since the beliefs are relatively new, both personally and as a set of religious dogma, the orbits of these satellites are erratic, more like a comet than a planet in its circular orbit.

Few things in life are perfect. Even things that we have come to accept as being true and absolute often have imperfections and blemishes... The earth, for example, and to extend the previous metaphor just a bit, is not a perfect sphere. Due to its spin, the earth is slightly bulged at the equator, and therefore slightly compressed at the poles. In fact, scientists call the shape of the earth "geoid" which means, cleverly, earth-shaped. This means that the earth, which to all intents and purposes is spherical, is NOT spherical at all, but has a unique shape.

We crave perfection. We look for regularity and simplicity and we want to reduce the amount of complexity and contradiction in our lives. This enables us to make justifiable and rational snap judgements about things and feel we are OK. Few things in life bear that kind of action, though. And we are likely cutting ourselves off from much of the richness of life through that kind of thinking. It involves more work, more risk, to take things individually and slowly examine them for what they are. But I believe that this is where the real glory of life exists, the richness, the beauty, the meaning.

Comments

Krista Lou Cook said…
Your not the only one who reads your blog :) I may not read all your entries.... but I do get to a few:)
Bill Cobabe said…
Thanks KLC. You made my day! :)

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