Watch This Space

Dear Readers:

I would like to apologize for not doing much in the way of entries in my weblog for the last few years. I can only plead necessity: for the past five years, I have been either unemployed or underemployed. Much of such employment that I have had has been unrewarding, either financially or personally. As a result, I have not been in much of a way to write, or write effectively.

Two things have changed recently, however: 1) I now have employment which permits me to pay my own way, rather than to depend on the charity of my friends and family, and 2) for my church, September 1st is the beginning of the New Year, both liturgically and personally. On the New Year, we make resolutions. My resolutions for this new year are fourfold: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and study.

The first three resolutions have little to do with this weblog, at least, not directly, and so in consequence, I will not be speaking of them here. But as a part of my fourth vow, study, I have decided to make study more a part of my life. I will also write of the fruits of that study, and to make those writings a part of this weblog.

As a result, there will be some changes in the ways that this weblog will be run. Between my work and my study, I will have little time for discussing 'current events', that fodder of the chattering classes, or the commentariat. Wise men, from Socrates through Henry David Thoreau and on to C.S. Lewis in the last century, have all agreed that there are better ways to spend one's time. I will try, for once, to be wise.

This will also mean that I will spend even less time than I have in contending with others in this weblog. Life is too short to be in a hurry, or in someone else's way. For those whom I have injured by my past practice of this vice, I offer my apologies, and ask their forgiveness.

And so, on this Feast of the Exaltation of the Life Giving Cross, this day of rediscovery of miracles which had been lost, I begin again.

Watch this space.