I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S. Lewis I once had an old dog that was so blind that she kept bumping into the furniture. It wasn’t that there wasn’t enough light, but she just …
Three Prerequisites to World Peace
I'm reblogging this from over three years ago. It seems to me that Mr. Lewis, who shared the original metaphor during WWII, would be quite disappointed with our progress toward personal, social, or global peace.
Not a hoof!
I was a brand new Christian when I went to Bible College to prepare for a life of service. I hadn’t even read most of the Bible yet but was about as spiritually hungry as a person could be. Almost every class (with the exception of psychology) and nearly every professor (except the English teacher) …
How do you say “niche”?
I like words. I like the sound of them as well as the sense of them. I love how one word can save the time of saying a bunch of other unnecessary words that otherwise would take a lot of words to say what you want to say, that is, if you actually have something …
Palm Trees, Toy Soldiers, and Alcoholics*
Christians, as I see it, are some of the worst at making adjustments. Life isn’t nearly as predictable as we would wish, so detours are a more regular occurrence than we planned when we embarked on the trip. So we have to learn to expect the unexpected, bring our fears about them to God and …
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