"Hope is a revolutionary patience… Hope begins in the dark, knowing that the dawn will come." Anne Lamott No clock or calendar can tell whether we’re at the beginning, the middle, or near the end of any bleak experience. Unlike the obsidian darkness, which arrived all at once, after six months or so the light …
“Jobian”
If I had my way, everything would fit a predictable pattern and be nailed down with precise definitions. Yet we can’t fit God into our patterns or definitions, and so it takes spiritual maturity to live with the ambiguity and the chaos, the absurdity and the untidiness. Accepting the ambiguity of God’s ways is a …
Stuck in traffic… “What’s going on up there?!”
“We are not intended to understand life. If I can understand a thing and can define it, I am its master. Logic and reason are always on the hunt for definition, and anything that can’t be defined is apt to be defied…” Oswald Chambers I don’t believe Christians – even real good ones – are …
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What Jesus Thought About Universal Victim Blaming (Part 2 of 5)
As you can see this is the second piece of a five-part essay. If you’d rather read it all at once, you can find it in barneywiget.com Mother Teresa told of a time when she spoke at a conference on world hunger in Bombay. "I was supposed to go to that meeting and I lost the …
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Self-pity is not my friend (part one)
Most of us fall and collapse at the first grip of pain; we sit down on the threshold of God’s purpose and die of self-pity. No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne. Oswald Chambers Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look …
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