Catch as Catch Can

I haven't posted a blog in three months or so. Does that mean that I have given up and quit? No. Does that mean that I have run out of things to say? Far from it. Does that mean that I have lost most of the few readers I had? Probably so. and painfully I regret the loss. What then does a three-month lapse mean? Its meaning lies in the core thesis that drove me to blog in the first place: that God is, by nature, relate-ive, that to think properly about God means to think in terms and the categories of persons in relation. If I mean this, then it means that I must place actual personal relations above the production of blogs. For a long time I have lived in an environment of several serious family illnesses. Some of these became somewhat critical in recent months. If I mean what I say in my blogs, my love, my commitment, my responsibility for family must override my strong commitment to write. To do otherwise would be to render my writing a farce; it would be hypocritical. I think a corner has been turned. I cannot project the future, so I cannot speak of when I will again write with regularity. But I believe I can write two or three, five or six times a month. They will be shorter than in the past. I will not attempt to get as much said at one time. Always what I do write will be parts of a larger whole. They may be fragments but eventually--if eventually ever occurs--they will coalesce. They will have coherence. I hope they will also be creative, alive, provocative of new considerations. I am humbly aware that they will never be comprehensive.