Presby-Musings

I typed the original version of this on a virtual typewriter .  A virtual typewriter.  This is what we've come to in our crazy-mixed-up world. I am actually typing on a virtual typewriter that has virtual typewriter keys that when depressed make virtual typewriter arms or whatever the heck they are called fly into the air and virtually strike a virtual page making a virtual imprint on a virtual piece of paper. And then if I want I can send this virtual piece of paper with virtual type virtually printed on it to a program on the iPad I am using to command this virtual typewriter that will enable me to print and actual copy of this virtual creation. What a world. And here's the funny thing about all of this. I actually prefer writing on this thing to simply using a word processing program -- despite how slick it is and despite all of the ways that said program can make my document look snappy. There was a moment just then when I actually felt my ...

Last year I attended Rob Bell 's very first 2Day event in Laguna Beach, CA and it pretty much changed my life.   I blogged about it here , and here , and here  and here .  There were others, but I don't want to bore you, or to give you the impression that the only thing I blog about is Rob Bell.  I blog about other stuff.  I promise. But in this case, I mention Rob Bell because he said something really profound that changed my life.  He said that many of us didn't create art, write books, blog--whatever because we thought that it had already been done before.  Then he said, "But not by you."  I went home with those words stuck in my head, and I found the manuscript to "An Offering" and I started working on it again.  Then I added more essays, and then I decided to do something crazy---publish it myself. Getting published is hard.  It's hard because you get rejected---a lot.  It's hard because it really is all about who you kn...