Before you write me off as a blogger know that just because I’ve had a busy two weeks doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about it. I regularly find myself thinking more about stuff just so I can maybe write about it later. I love the feeling!

So part of my absence was due to the annual as ever Impact Summer Camp. Also becoming an annual event is my drive up to Michigan for it (a 15 hour affair) which is way to much time to sit and think…and listen to an audio book or two. My listening was The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs, an agnostic, secular raised Jew. Reading this lead to two realizations:

1. The Bible is not user friendly. I’ve always understood how daunting and overwhelming the Bible can seem to a first time reader, but the author of this book found over 700 rules that he attempted to follow. This was my frustration with the book (and the reason I do not recommend it). He never took the time to get the heart of the Bible and only once or twice made mention of the God’s love for us part. He got caught up in the religion and never caught the purpose of any of it.

2. But that led to my second realization that I am incredibly sympathetic to skepticism of Christianity. My favorite parts of the Bible have always been the ones that display the struggle of faith in God. For me, Jonah, the author of Ecclesiastes, and Job are some of my favorites. As Jacobs asks in the book, ”Is half of the world suffering from a massive delusion, or is my blindness to spirituality a huge defect in my personality?” It’s not that I too struggle with my faith, it’s just that I really understand how it can be hard to believe in something so illogical. Hopefully  I will return to these topics soon.