Now during my musings I tend to go round in circles and end up wasting a lot of time, so I thought if I put my thoughts down in words then maybe I'd waste less time.
However there is also a slightly less selfish reason. The other day I'd worked myself into a rather depressing hole regarding the meaning and purpose of life. I went to bed quite sad but before I went to sleep I read chapter 7 of King's Cross (by Tim Keller, it's a good book) which was all about how we can never make ourselves perfect by our own effort, and if this is all there is then we really are quite inconsequential. Despite the somewhat depressing nature of the chapter, it cheered me up as I wasn't just crazy and other people have thought through the things I ponder about. We can know this logically, but it helps to be reminded. So anyway, I hope that maybe through this blog of random musings someone, somewhere will be cheered by the reminder that other people muse about the same thing as them and they aren't just crazy!
So what will this blog be about?
Well anything and everything really, but the following themes will probably be prevalent
- My Christian faith - This is really quite important but as it involves a God who created us and so is beyond our understanding, there is always more to think about.
- Engineering - I'm study civil engineering, and so cool engineering solutions will interest me, and I might share them on here
- Nature and the environment - I love nature, there so much of it, and it can be so pretty. The environment also includes the human environment (although I suppose that ties into the whole engineering thing)
- Randomness - Everything is connected, however sometimes the connection is not immediately obvious, so there might be some musings that are entirely random.
On the subject of procrastination, I really should stop doing it and go back to my work (a report on the qualitative appraisal for remediation of a contaminated site if you are interested)
If there's anything you think about and would like to share your thoughts with me, or want me to share my thoughts with you, so get in touch.
So I leave you with this song I heard on the radio this morning, I've never heard it before but I liked the lyrics:
When the weight of all my dreams
Is resting heavy on my head,
And the thoughtful words of health and hope
Have all been nicely said.
But I'm still hurting,
Wondering if I'll ever be
The one I think I am.
I think I am.
Then you gently re-remind me
That you've made me from the first,
And the more I try to be the best
The more I get the worst.
And I realize the good in me,
Is only there because of who you are.
Who you are...
And all I ever have to be
Is what you've made me.
Any more or less would be a step
Out of your plan.
As you daily recreate me,
Help me always keep in mind
That I only have to do
What I can find.
And all I ever have to be
All I have to be
All I ever have to be
Is what you've made me.
