Why Musings? Why Tent?

Why did I choose to describe these thoughts as various musings? Well, I want to continue to think deeply and the main definition of a musing is meditation. I want to be thinking clearly and in a meaningful way about what ever it is I choose to write down for an audience to read. I don’t just want to throw random thoughts that come up, though some may well be random in nature. This also will probably not be a journal of sorts, mainly because I am lazy and that would have to be a daily thing and I could not keep up with it and I really don’t think people want to hear about the food I ate or the people I did or did not want to talk to today.

But why tent? Tents are temporary just like this life and me as a living, breathing, post-fall human being. I get this metaphor from 1 Corinthians 5. Paul says, “For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling.” I know that I do not forever belong on this earth, but for now it is my mission to stay here to glorify and proclaim a King that will soon return, but until that day I groan, not always because of the pain and crookedness of this bent place, but because of the deep longing I have to be where I belong, where I am meant to be.

So these entries will be me meditating on various ideas of which I am only mildly informed, because I am so outside the complete wisdom. I have a desire to grow in my knowledge, wisdom, and ability to communicate both and this is the beginning of an attempt to mature at all three.

I hope that whoever reads my musings will be challenged to think more deeply and more broadly and above all pointed towards the King and Creator of all that perplexes us.