What Do I?
What do I feel?
What do I know?
What do I steal?
What do I show?
Longing
Learning
Language
Lineage
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(Un)Answered Prayer
The unspeakable had happened.
Jerusalem was destroyed.
The Temple was burned down.
Israel was exiled from their promised land.
It was the greatest calamity imaginable.
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Lose Your Passion for Dumbness
I will start this with no definite idea of where it will go. An adventure in the blogesphere. I’m not sure where I’m going, but I invite you to come with me.
I remember reading in Bob Dylan’s Chronicles how when he first arrived in New York City in 1961 he was staying with a man who had a large library and how he found himself spending most of his spare time devouring volumes on history, philosophy, poetry and literature. Dylan then made some quip to the effect that, “You’ve got to lose your passion for dumbness.”
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Is There A God?
Some of my thinking in this blog has been assisted by the writings of Swiss theologian Emil Brunner.
Is There A God?
The question is not necessarily easy to answer because the question itself is wrongly framed. The moment a person asks this question about God they are on the wrong track. The problem is the word “there.”there: adverb in or at that place
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Rhythm
Life is full of rhythm.
The daily rhythm of sunrise and sunset.
The seasonal rhythm of winter, spring, summer, fall.
The lunar rhythm seen in the cycles of the moon.When we consider the human body we can say life is rhythm.
The steady rhythm of breathing.
The syncopated rhythm of the heart.
The many rhythms of a healthy body.
When your body is out of rhythm you are sick.
If the rhythm is not restored you are dead.
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On Becoming A Self
Who are you?
You are a self. Your self. Yourself.
You are a unique self. Unique development is the nature of the self. No two selves develop alike.
You do not become what you are, but you are what you become.
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The Secret
It’s a beautiful day.
I’m sitting on my deck reading Ephesians in the New Living Translation.
My eye fall upon these words:
“God’s secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ.” (Eph. 1:9)
I pause for just a moment with this thought floating in my head:
God’s secret plan.
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