How To Disappear Completely

How To Disappear Completely. Really.

I am resurrecting this post in order to get a fresh perspective on what I meant to do in the beginning. Now that I am more aesthetically pleased with the blog appearance, I believe I will be more motivated to actually keep my good intentions over here....

To counter an age of self-aggrandizement and personal fulfillment, I thought I'd add my own thoughts on self-decreasing and personal disappearing. But this advice isn't really mine after all. John the Baptist said it first: "He must become greater; I must become less." (John 3:30). C. S. Lewis also noted that "[t]he real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself all together or see yourself as a small, dirty object. It is better to forget about yourself all together." (Mere Christianity).

However, disappearing completely doesn't mean oblivion in some pantheistic "melting-into-the-void" kind of way. A person can rejoice in her accomplishments, her personality, her distinctness; she just has to remember that context in which to keep "everything in its right place." Perspective is maintained by relating everything to the One "in [whom] all things hold together." (Col. 1:17)

It is because ultimately all truth is held together in Christ that randomness can be enjoyed. Francis Schaeffer's How Shall We Then Live and Colin Gunton's The One, the Three, and the Many both emphasize the importance of having a metanarrative of absolute truth that will prevent chaos (extreme particularity that disintegrates into alienation) and yet maintains an appreciation of distinctness that prevents bland homogenuity and slavish legalism.

Thus, this blog will attempt to be a place where randomness and nonsense are enjoyed both for their distinct particularity and also for their ultimate coherant relatedness (albeit, a relation sometimes superimposed by me as I exercise a mild amount of creative dominion). Indeed, let all paradoxes find a warm welcome here. And because all truth is God's truth and not my own, I hope that this website brings Him glory as I continue to disappear in humorous appreciation or critical evaluation of all that passes under my eye.