The new balance

I've been listening to 1 Corinthians 13 [click to play with Realplayer] and getting quietly intruiged. You see, several persons who have ministered to me in the past tell me that forgiveness doesn't include forgetting. The implication is that when someone has lost your trust, you are not obliged to give it back, even though you've forgiven.
Looking at 1 Corinthians 13:5, we're told that, "...[love] keeps no record of wrongs." that to me means that I'm justified in giving people my trust, even when they should, in secularist terms, at least, loose it for good.
People have suggested that taking this approach means that I'm walked over, but I find that people don't take advantage of me in that way: maybe being offered trust makes people feel valued. A lot of the people's wrong-doing is because business, education and everything else tells people to take a position of fear before they offer anyone the hand of friendship and trust. It must be something to be won, rather than offered as of right. I think Paul was trying to tell us that we're doing something wrong. The Darby translation says instead, "...[love] does not impute evil." Quite right. And neither should we.

So you've found me. Maybe you have a blog yourself? Well here's something to get you out of the rut of reading only the blogs you've found that you like. This innocuous link sits in my Bookmarks Toolbar Folder and one click flings me on to a random blog in the Blogger system. Ironically it is blogs like mine which are set up manually and run on other servers which won't appear when you browse the blogosphere in this way, but it will still get you reading.

Click http://www.blogger.com/redirect/next_blog.pyra and you're away. I hope for your sake, you find something posted that you don't agree with (or just plain wrong). If that's the case, post a comment there, then state your point of view on your own blog. That's all there is to it. Citizen journalists unite!

These days, there's no [good] reason not to be an activist. Free culture, subtitled, 'How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity' gets the Valentine Must-Read award of the month. This book should be of interest to anyone who considers themselves to be creative, and anyone who was born in the last 25 years or so and wonders why they aren't.

It is available in many, many e-book formats from the derivitives and remixes page on his site. To get some idea of the content, take a look at the table of contents of the book.