Hello Ziggy. It sounds we have just about the very same situation. Nice to have an extra kindered spirit here! Rarely go out either, except walking my dog and perhaps going to the small grocery store down the street. I feel I don't need much more excitement than that, at least not for social reasons. I find it quite exhausting to be amongst people. Have only one friend, and we see each other perhaps only once every second year on average. Talk almost daily over a chatting app though.
Actually attended a church mass yesterday. I must say that a huge case of social anxiety struck me - but God held me and I sat through all of it. Felt very good. Will try another church in a neighboring village next Sunday.
I like watching the world go round from a distance. Going through a short age of choas but it should be over shortly.
I see enough through the tell-a-vision and the inter-net to be amazed to find we have survived another day.
But I also know that God's hand is directing it all. And no one ever said that armegheddon was going to be easy or clean.
We watch from a distance. And those things that are good will remain, and those things which are harmful will be cleansed away.
Problem is, some of those harmful things become familiar and it's hard to let go without feeling like something is being taken from you.
Even if it is for your own good, or health.
I'm pretty heavy into politics right now. The "drone" movie is now playing. But what is going on behind the scenes I think would be more entertaining if we could watch that show.
Don't hear to much about the "transition" process going on from the party's. I wonder who's getting promoted or getting fired, or going to jail.
If you think about the early church, when people went from house to house to whisper news about Jesus and the resurrection. That must have been a very tense time in history. If you were a Jew you were being asked to come out from all your traditions and things you've been taught, into a whole new way of thinking and living your life.
It wasn't just a transition from this church to that church, or even this denomination to that one. This transition took place inside you and who you were willing to become.
I'm not sure what this transition finale is going to look like, but the chapters to this book are keeping me occupied with a lot of meditation on all kinds of things.
I wonder if Paul was to write about this book of ACTS we are in now, how would he write it?
Who would be the main characters? Who would be the "bad guys" ?
And what would James say about all the technology and social structures of our day?
How would they see it? How will our great great grandchildren look back on these days we're going through?
I'm rambling tonight. I do that sometimes
Nice to meet you kindred spirit.
Hugs
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