I listened to a podcast this week in which author John Eldredge acknowledges the entire world has been through a trauma with the Covid pandemic. He goes on (at about the 20:00 mark) to discuss the pursuit of beauty, saying beauty “is so important to healing trauma”. I’m a big fan of beauty and the […]
Category Archives: Faith
This Too Shall Pass
Just when I think my spring allergies can’t be any worse … eh, they’re kinda bad. This too shall pass. If we can fast forward to the sweet spot between grass and ragweed season, that’d be great. And then let’s skip ahead to fall. If only life worked that way. I heard today about a […]
Agendas and Calendars, Oh My
Do you have and agenda or do you have an agenda? Some people refer to the paper calendars they use to schedule their lives as agendas. Agendae? Whatever. Having gone through the age of the 5”x8”-ish Franklin Planner, which weighed approximately five tons … and Palm Pilots, which famously would get out of sync and […]
Peace, Love, and Tree Hugging
Happy Earth Day. Everyone go hug a tree. It’ll be a far better use of your time than any of the violence inciting, race baiting, whatabouting, half-truth reporting that seems to dominate the culture anytime we turn on a screen. “I’m not sure what’s true anymore,” said my friend the other day, referring to a […]
Wisenheimer
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. ~James 1:5 I’ve been thinking about wisdom. I heard it said that wisdom is the only specific thing the bible guarantees we’ll get if we pray for it. […]
It’s April, Fools
I pity the fool! If you think I’m being mean by calling people fools, you need to research the cultural phenomenon known as Mr. T or else we can’t be friends. I pity the fool who thinks April 1 is too late for it to snow in central Ohio. It’s been flurrying on and off […]
Something Stinky This Way Comes
I was greeted the other morning by a stink bug on the bathroom mirror. (I killed it before trying to get a photo.) And today I learned the stink bug is native to southeast Asia and likely was accidentally introduced to the US from China or Japan. No reports on whether it was from Wuhan. […]
Free Free Free Free
Soooo … what’s the latest crisis I’m supposed to be indignant about? I’m having trouble keeping up. Earlier this week The Washington Post issued a pretty major correction to a January 9 news story about then-President Trump’s December phone call to Georgia state election officials. Here’s some commentary (i.e. opinion), including video, on the implications. […]
March Forth
This is how much I want to get out of bed today. How much I want to March forth on March fourth. I’m just over here waiting to duck and cover from the next crazy controversy. Potayto, potahto. Felines with headwear. Streets named for trees. “Judge not” twisted to serve one’s own whims. Say something […]
Beautiful
“Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.” ~Acts 3:2 NIV How many times have I read and heard that verse, but this time it hit me in a different way. […]