Update

In a nutshell:

YWAM classes, activities, homework & commuting: 40-45 hours/week St. Arbucks: 27-30 hours/week Wendy's job: 15-20 hours/week Laundry, house upkeep, mowing lawn, time with family etc.: the rest of whatever time is left Sleep: Sleep?

A conversation that has happened a couple of times recently in the Resonate forum is that people are getting restless with "the conversation". Seems like more and more people are starting to feel like there's a lot of talk (which is good for sorting through ideas and discovering new ones) but not much that is inspiring faith or faith-in-action. Several blogging friends here in Canada have both privately (in email) or publicly (on their blogs) wondered if their "season of blogging" was perhaps coming to a close -- or at least signaling a possible change in direction.

The question that I'm wrestling with for this blog is whether or not (A) I really have the time available to do it justice, and (B) wondering if this blog has served its purpose and if I should move on. A Journeymate from the past, Karl Thienes, said something very insightful in a private email shortly after deciding to go on a "blogging sabbatical":

"I've always wanted to blog -- or not blog -- because I wanted to, not because the blog 'owned' me. I wanted to be able to leave it, when it was time, on my own terms."

Suffice it to say, I haven't made any concrete decisions just yet, but that's about where my thinking is at this point. Plus, after finishing the Post-Charismatic project, at times it feels like I've said all that I wanted to say, and perhaps that in itself is a signal to move on.

And now for something completely different...

Scot McKnight has a great piece on the breadth of what Jesus' death on the Cross bought for each of us. I'd heartily recommend Atonement Wars on Good Friday? as a great theological summation of the many facets of the jewel we call The Atonement.