[Another random selection from the memoir I'm finishing up...] We ignore the ambiguity that accompanies our finitude, and thus we claim to know what we can't know. We reduce the unfathomable complexity of the cosmos to the capacity of our finite minds. When we do this, we invariably end up blaming God or indicting victims. …
Fall risk…
I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. Hillel I was pushed back and about to fall but the Lord helped me. Psalm 118:13 “To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy.” Jude 24 Every …
Hell and hilarity in the hospital (part two)
[Here's another piece from the memoir I'm preparing to publish soonish... Hope you'll read the whole thing when it's ready.] Another time, during the transplant I got pretty sick and was sentenced to a week in an isolation room in the hospital. It wasn’t that I’d been bad, and had to be separated from the …
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Not fair! (part two)
When I lived with Bob and Jean I noticed that they routinely pray for parking places – and pretty much everything else, from good deals on tomatoes at Safeway to revival in America. As for revival, since there are other people interceding for that, if it does break out somewhere, we’d have to give partial …
Not fair! (part one)
Once we discover that God has joined our tears and can be moved with compassion, the world becomes a very unpredictable place. M. Craig Barnes Friend, I am not being unfair to you… Don’t I have the right to do what I want with (what is) my own…? Matthew 20:13, 15 When my kids were …
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