Merciful Savior, we are bone-weary, discouraged, even hopeless. We want to run away from responsibilities and needs that never end. Our own forgetfulness separates us from you: we forget to be grateful for your many blessings. We forget to serve in your strength, not our own. We forget to pray first; instead we exhaust our […]
I find it bemusing how my Fridays have devolved into one hands-on interaction after another. I used to spread these out through the week, but spring term 2018 isn’t playing that way. So here’s a quick wave as I spiff myself up to head out to honor my friend’s birthday over dinner. His January 15th […]
(that is, everybody has text conversations like this. right??) M: Ooooo! Nice final quote on the blog!! I am frequently worried I’m not M-ing enough, or haven’t chosen the best M version to be. K: Thanks! That quote’s one of my favorites. I think about it a lot. M: Another I’m fixed on: You are […]
So first: the current phone-version of WordPress seems to be a little sticky when it comes to pushing out (scheduling) posts. I might’ve contributed pilot error on Tuesday (see Tuesday’s post), but with two stuck in three posts… I want to blame the tech. That’s done. Second, it’s been an eating kind of day. Like […]
I went to visit the black screen after lunch, to see whether it was all dead or only mostly dead. It had something stuck in its booting-up craw, so stuck it didn’t want to boot in any of the ease-it-on ways I know to tell it to try. Perplexed, I decided to see whether getting […]
Yesterday I had plans. Similar in form and function to the plans I had each day last week, and the week before that… You can see where this is headed. Yep. Got home from church, and hanging out with a friend for an impromptu hour, …and took a three-hour nap. Talked with B after dinner, […]
Without all knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God …For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves; indeed, our very being is nothing but subsistence in the one God. –from Book One, Chapter One of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin Heard that today […]
I’m tired of blaming the weather. I’m tired of having this, or that, or the other thing waiting to be squared away. I’m tired of ignoring this|that|the other in order to address the persistent drowse. I’m tired of seeing inadvertent self-serving motives dressing up as inclusion or thoughtfulness. I’m tired of being tired. At this […]
It’s an old phrase… popular in the 18th century. It showed up in my head during acupuncture, and I imagined pairs of mitochondria, in uniform, visiting cell-to-cell… <knock knock> Excuse me. Have you any mitochondria present, willing to serve with vigor and energy? Kinda like Bill Watterson’s ‘tiny Calvins’– which I couldn’t find in the […]
Still beyond sleepy. Still napping all afternoon. Still don’t get it! Managed to head out for my steps between afternoon and dinner, only to hear the interviewee on the Typology podcast — a psychotherapist who specializes in working through trauma — offhandedly include in his list o’ trauma-responses, “and people who try to gather lots […]
