Chip Shots

Wouldn't it be grand if everything always turned out great, if good guys always won, if it never rained on anyone's parade? But life isn't like that, is it? Great plans go awry, good guys seldom win, and rain falls on parades. What are we to make of that? What good is a God who can't get the little things right? Wouldn't we be better off in a purely naturalistic world? Hardly! Without God, we would have no reason to think that life had any purpose besides its own continuation; we'd have no one to look to for guidance and encouragement; we'd have no recourse when life didn't make sense. To be perfectly blunt about it, life would have no point. Disappointment itself would be pointless. And when you think about it, that's a pretty good point. Match Point.

Okay, it's time I started writing again. For several years I wrote a column for our weekly newspaper. It was well received by our community, and I enjoyed finding a way to gently communicate spiritual truths to a secular audience. Many of those articles found their way into this medium. When the paper closed a year ago, so did the pressure to write. I've missed it. I'm not making any resolutions, mind you, but at least, this is a start. "Beginning is half done," they say. We'll see....