The Years Go By

I know it has been a long while since I last posted anything of any substance on this blog. A poor effort for a site that is supposed to keep people up to date with things I have been pondering on.

Further to my post about the power of words, I've been slightly worried about posting things for the sake of posting. As a result, I've ended up not posting anything.

But I wanted to share with you a bizarre experience that happened to me last week. I opened a book and out dropped a letter from my friend Louise dated 30th June 1997.

What struck me was how relevant much of the content was, and how relevant to me right now some of the content was. Now, I'm no stranger to the concept of letters written to a specific moment having relevance to me today. After all, much of the New Testament is made up of letters written to a certain group of people which because of their inspired status, are also able to have a relevance far beyond their original intended readership.

But you don't expect similar things to happen in letters from friends.

Case in point being the following sentence:

'Oh, by the way, keep your ears, eyes and heart open to God. Get ready to write.'

So, written ages before blogs were even invented, a throwaway, by the way type sentence written nearly ten years ago has been reminding me of two things.

Firstly, the writing comes as a second to the openness before God.

After the openness comes the readiness to write and then pass on the good that has come from having ears, eyes and heart open before God.

It seems that over the post month one, other or both of these elements have been missing.

Hopefully I've got the point Louise was trying to make to me ten years ago. I would hate to have to learn this lesson each decade.

Which should mean I'm start to change as I have my ears, eyes and heart more open to God.

And that should mean I start posting more often again.