Yours, Jack ...Blog Shift of Focus

 I've been looking at my blogs today and wondering which one would fit best for a kind of Counsels of Perfection type reflection.  I've been reading a book of CS Lewis's letters called Yours, Jack.   It is interesting to read both from a biographical point of view (like his early journals which I read last year) and also from what could be called a vocational point of view.   Even in his letters, Lewis is a prose writer.  He writes for clarity, and for literary impact; he tells truth but in the plainest, most emphatic and most lucid way he knows.  

When I look back at my old blogs, particularly the ones I wrote for a general audience, I see CSL's influence both in approach and in style.   Obviously I am not as erudite or original as he was; but the emulative desire is still there, and I owe a lot to him.

Anyway, it occurs to me that part of my problem with Eucatastrophe is related to my perception of a gap between my private diary, Athelas, and my public blog.    I would like to make Eucatastrophe more of a general blog, like some of my older ones -- in fact, that's the only kind of blog I really know how to write.  But I am out of practice, and it hinders me; plus there is the thing I have mentioned before, that I don't have a subject, really, like I did with home education, one where I have my own track record of personal experience but also a desire to reflect on it and learn about it.

Yet, every human, every Christian, has a similar theme; trying to live in the world as a representive of the Messiah.   This is what I'm getting from Lewis' book of letters; he was a scholar and author, but in the letters he is talking as one human to another, and indeed, he was rarely capable of reading and writing as a fellow human being no matter how deep his reflections.   This is the part of him that I most think worthy of admiration and emulation.  

So I hope to use this blog, even though it doesn't quite fit, as a way to basically write about things going on that relate life to books and devotion.   It seems I say this again and again in different ways, but there it is! Again!

My default will be to reflect on "lectio divina" -- something from the Divine Office, or an issue I am having in spiritual life.   Then go from there.  Hopefully in the long run I can phase into writing more publicly.  It's ironic because I doubt if my "public" blog will ever have a reader -- still, it's potentially readable, and that causes angst currently!