April 7, 2010
Take-aways
It is good to glean “take-aways” from experiences. I saw “Clash of the Titans” last weekend. My take-away was the line “There is a god in you – be sure to bring it!” My beliefs understand the truth in the line to be “God (Holy Spirit) lives within you – remember that; act accordingly.” Don’t bring a knife to a tank battle, and don’t think you can stand against hell with a “little g” god.
Memory markers
Life Cliff Notes highlighted
Life book chapter titles
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
April 6, 2010
I Witness
Eye witness. Hear witness. Smell witness. Feel witness. Taste witness. Bear witness. Bare witness. False witness. Key witness. I see, hear, feel, smell and taste my moments. Am I experientially credible, as a sixth sensor with second sight? Would a sound jury agree? The hardest part seems to be paying attention to BOTH the minutia and the panorama.
Connecting the dots
Situational awareness
Microscope telescope
I Witness
Eye witness. Hear witness. Smell witness. Feel witness. Taste witness. Bear witness. Bare witness. False witness. Key witness. I see, hear, feel, smell and taste my moments. Am I experientially credible, as a sixth sensor with second sight? Would a sound jury agree? The hardest part seems to be paying attention to BOTH the minutia and the panorama.
Connecting the dots
Situational awareness
Microscope telescope
Sunday, April 4, 2010
April 5, 2010
Two and 3/4 Men
Vinny and I share - care for a young man. Eight years now, and the boy now looks like a man. How we got this job, only God knows. We still hang, chat and chew at Noshville deli. We must look an unlikely trio. Vince tells about how Shantytown South Africa taught him some life. I tell potty stories about how it is to be a backside in the Philippines and Japan. Boy man tells about what he sees, and how he sees it. We listen. God eavesdrops.
So who is a father?
For many “father” is a mosaic
You me and God
Two and 3/4 Men
Vinny and I share - care for a young man. Eight years now, and the boy now looks like a man. How we got this job, only God knows. We still hang, chat and chew at Noshville deli. We must look an unlikely trio. Vince tells about how Shantytown South Africa taught him some life. I tell potty stories about how it is to be a backside in the Philippines and Japan. Boy man tells about what he sees, and how he sees it. We listen. God eavesdrops.
So who is a father?
For many “father” is a mosaic
You me and God
April 4, 2010
Life Risen
The balloon is almost full to buoyant, straining the tie ropes. Will you wave goodbye as it rises and sails? Will you jump in the basket, and take flight? You see the problem is that the balloon goes where the wind blows it, and just where will that be? What is the flight plan? And just where does that wind come from, and where is it going? Only one way to find out… all boooaaaarrrddd!
Scary stuff cutting loose
A control freak’s worst nightmare
All to lose and gain
Life Risen
The balloon is almost full to buoyant, straining the tie ropes. Will you wave goodbye as it rises and sails? Will you jump in the basket, and take flight? You see the problem is that the balloon goes where the wind blows it, and just where will that be? What is the flight plan? And just where does that wind come from, and where is it going? Only one way to find out… all boooaaaarrrddd!
Scary stuff cutting loose
A control freak’s worst nightmare
All to lose and gain
April 3, 2010
40 days a weak
Give it up for Lent - so I did, and failed. Not the first or last time; kind of like a new year’s resolution. Some really great stuff happens even to the denial deficient. Daily time with God and God’s Word; breathe in life deep! Exhale daily stories since Jan 1. My spiritual hearing improves... shhhh now, shhhh. Hear it?
What a sorry soul
Can’t even give that up for God?
Pay attention, closer
40 days a weak
Give it up for Lent - so I did, and failed. Not the first or last time; kind of like a new year’s resolution. Some really great stuff happens even to the denial deficient. Daily time with God and God’s Word; breathe in life deep! Exhale daily stories since Jan 1. My spiritual hearing improves... shhhh now, shhhh. Hear it?
What a sorry soul
Can’t even give that up for God?
Pay attention, closer
April 2, 2010
He has done it
Jesus said “It is finished.” Followers say he has done it, once and forever. As for me, what Jesus did and finished gives me a place to start, and re-start. The hand extended to me and you is pierced, and knows sorrow. The best kind of leadership and love says “come with me where I have been and go again.”
Telestai happens
I will see you soon at home
Woman, behold your son
He has done it
Jesus said “It is finished.” Followers say he has done it, once and forever. As for me, what Jesus did and finished gives me a place to start, and re-start. The hand extended to me and you is pierced, and knows sorrow. The best kind of leadership and love says “come with me where I have been and go again.”
Telestai happens
I will see you soon at home
Woman, behold your son
April 1, 2010
Prison Dad
A friend’s boy is now an imprisoned man. He’s badly broken, obscenely wounding his own kids. So just where does MY compassion begin and end? Justice and mercy go here, but its ends right there? Do sexual offenders get “special” prison justice, and do they deserve it? And what if they “get religion” - do they still get hell now and later?
Generational
The curse that keeps on giving
Break it now God please
Prison Dad
A friend’s boy is now an imprisoned man. He’s badly broken, obscenely wounding his own kids. So just where does MY compassion begin and end? Justice and mercy go here, but its ends right there? Do sexual offenders get “special” prison justice, and do they deserve it? And what if they “get religion” - do they still get hell now and later?
Generational
The curse that keeps on giving
Break it now God please
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