I don’t get it. I don’t feel appreciably different than I did Sunday at 2 in the afternoon, or Saturday at 2 in the afternoon, or even Friday, much less last Wednesday… Mood and energy say: read a bunch of books. In bed, so those books-that-want-attention? Not so much. Sleeping numbers on the Fitbit? Seven […]
a voice cries out in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God —Isaiah 40:3 My “wilderness” devotional happens weekly, on Thursdays. The passage we today meditated on was Isaiah 40: 3-5; verse three I quote above. As the lector began reading, I was startled–her […]
One of the side effects of having a social media life full of Christian writers is how, collectively, we’re all standing around today — Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday both — saying, “Whoa…. Did you see what happened there, that juxtaposition? Whoa.” We like when life constructs its own metaphors. I like it less when […]
Last fall—last summer? last spring? last spring—I picked up “wilderness” from Scripture and started rolling it around in my mind. If it were an actual stone, it would be smooth by now… almost to a marble’s slickness. Wilderness: the ancient place of chaos, where anything might happen, where death was more likely than life. Jesus’ […]
My thoughts all bits, all scraps, falling through my fingers to disappear on the floor without even the grace of sand to mark their passing. By the way, Genius (that definitive expositor of rap, hip-hop, and other lyrics) notes that, in “Fly Like an Eagle,” Steve Miller & Steve McCarty drew from Isaiah 40 and […]
This morning, as I was finishing up prep work for my Thursday class, My Sweetie returned from his marketing. I had been digging through YouTube to find recordings of the hymns/songs we sing in class, singing along as I went. Later, as I was arranging this week’s flowers, he commented, “You were singing so beautifully […]
I don’t partake of the news much. This is an abnegation of my responsibility as a citizen of this republic, as a human who by definition lives within society. It is also a place where you can see my enneagram 5ness come into sharp relief: in the stream of world information, I can clearly see […]
Monday I stood at a fork in the road. I turned one way, not the other, and it has made—will continue to make—ripples into my and other lives ahead. I can’t tell whether I chose God’s way. Here’s the thing. This was far from momentous. In class on Monday, my prof noted that I […]
Is it procrastination, or is it seizing the moment while the thought is fresh? I have my theology readings open on my lap; I have Sun Radio playing along. They’ve chosen a live version of a familiar song, and the singalong portion catches my attention: they’re dragging. The audience is slowing down the tempo, which […]
I don’t know whether Mr. Pastis chose this for a Sunday (4 Feb 2018) because it’s more than four panels, or for a Sunday because that’s the usual Christian day of worship. But every time I read one of these presentations of existentialism, I think of Pascal’s Wager. (In case you got confused, it doesn’t […]
