The comment was made to me very recently that this was the Kiwi’s site.  I quickly corrected the person to which they replied that I had never written anything on here.  So here I am to write something on here.  

And I wondered why I don’t write anything on here.  Is it simply because I don’t have time?  Well that is a big factor of course.  A woman’s work is never done…….  I mean that in the nicest possible way.  I really enjoy looking after our home and our lives.  I wouldn’t say I like cleaning necessarily, but I like the end result.  But I do enjoy ‘homemaking’.  We have a baby on the way too, so there is lots of planning and organising involved in that.  The nursery is nowhere near ready yet and the time is drawing nearer week by week.  Fortunately babies don’t come into the world and say ” WHAT!!!  My room isn’t ready yet????? “  So time is a big factor. 

Another reason might be that the Kiwi puts great big long posts on here about very important stuff and that puts me off.  I, perhaps subconciously, think that people who read this blog are only interested in deep theological debates rather than the pink fluffy things I want to discuss like: ‘Why is my zygocactus dying?  Should I shift it?  Will my Hippie’s grow under mulch? What colour curtains shall I get for the babies room?  And why at antenatal classes do they only talk about pain and labour etc, and not about how to change a nappy or bath the baby?’ So that could be another reason.  I am intimidated. 

Another reason might be that when I have felt particularly strong about a certain topic, I am reluctant to share my thoughts for fear of offending or giving the wrong impression or saying something very unchristainlike.  The Kiwi is great at being able to discuss things in a way that looks at every angle.  He is keen to get at the truth.  I, however, am an emotional creature and that very much colours the way I process and think about things.  It takes time for me to process things close to my heart and often involves a lot of emotions and perhaps some wrong thinking.  Eventually the Spirit of God sorts me out.  By which time I’m over the desire to write a post on the subject.  So that another reason: reluctance to share emotive issues. 

It’s all about where your priorities are isn’t it.  I could make time to write more, but will anybody be interested?  I’m not sure.  Perhaps when I have the baby I will have more time and have something interesting to write?  (Hahahahaha).  If I come up with anymore reasons I will keep you posted…….. get it?…. keep you posted??? 

BTW. My zygocactus is dying because it is getting too much sun I think.  I’m thinking of making orange and lime green curtains for the babies room.  I’m waiting to see what will happen with mys Hippies and mulch.  I am going to ask the midwife when we are going to discuss nappies and bathing.  And my latest desire to write a post had to do with gossip and tearing people down in a Christian environment. 

In these posts I want to recount how I got to my present understanding about divorce and remarriage. It’s unfortunate but true, of course, that the fact that I am married to a previously married woman will cause some people to immediately discount anything I have to say on the subject. What can you do? All I have to say in my defence is that I have done all I can before God to remain honest and open to His leading through the Bible and the Spirit. Having done that, I trust that God will correct my errors as He sees fit and give me grace for my errors where He does not.

As I sat and listened to the sermon, I got a little rattled. Paula and I were on holiday (vacation for you Americans) visiting another church where the pastor was speaking from Romans 7:1-6. In that passage, Paul uses the illustration of marriage and death to explain a Christian’s release from the Law through sharing in Jesus’ death. In doing so he seems to give only one option for remarriage - the death of one’s spouse. ‘Could it be,’ I thought, ‘that John Piper, Gordon J. Wenham and some of my friends are right? In God’s eyes is the death of your spouse the only situation in which you can remarry?’

You see, I have married a woman who has been divorced, not once, but twice, and neither of her ex-husbands is dead.

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Read Scot McKnight’s paper “What is the Emerging Church” (HT: Justin Taylor) that he presented to Westminster Theological Seminary.

I was unaware that Scot now aligns himself with the Emerging Movement - last I read, he was sympathetic but not a part of it.  Having read his paper, though, I wonder whether I’d better align myself with it, also.  In a very un-emerging way (in-out thinking), here are aspects of the rivers leading into the Emerging Lake he talks about and where I stand in relation to them.

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