Suppose you were able to see the end results of different paths that are offered you in life. Let’s say all your choices are based solely on the final outcome. The most alluring choice, the one to which we would say, YES, I want to be THAT, the one that will change us for the absolute best, will necessarily involve pain. If fact, any result at ... read more
Perfect
Be Ye Perfect... Many people are bothered by these words. As C.S. Lewis says, many believe God expects us to be perfect, if not He will not help us. A rather hopeless position. Perhaps, as Lewis muses, He meant, "The only help I will give is help to become perfect. You may want less than that, but ... read more
Umami
Truth. It doesn't change. Sweet, salty, sour, and bitter equals taste. We get four choices plus smell, the great enjoyment multiplier of fine cuisine. (To qualify as taste, a taste must be detected without any other sense involved.) Enter umami: Taste #5. Defined as a "savory" taste, found in meats, seafoods, sea weed and ... read more
Fire
Fire is the most magical thing I know. Careful, it is hot. But you can run your finger through it without being burned. Evanescent, it cannot be weighed or quantified except by where it has been and what it has used for fuel. It gives blessed heat.... ...yet burns and disfigures irreparably. Even as it does so, fire is beauty ... read more
Recycled
OK so it is a little skinny. But it has good bones... er...rocks & wood. Have you noticed wood is good both dead and alive? ... read more
A kind of Knowing
Forcing bulbs—a deception, I should think. Making a plant think (if plants can indeed think) summer is back. But who can resist hovering over brillant red red red at the far end of the produce department? Uh-huh, they are in the basket and home. Let's call forcing a small luxury. Forcing. Nothing more ... read more
Birthdays
Happy Birthday--it's the most universally known song in the world. When we arrived in Kenyna two years ago, finally lying in bed after an exhausting couple of days of flying, wafting through the open window came Happy Birthday being sung in three part harmony. Indeed this Kenya was a strange place--everything from mosquitos that can kill ... read more
Religion and Politics
I've heard it said that if you mix religion and politics— you get politics. True? Why is that? ~ ... read more
Stillnesss. Glory.
Not just amazement at the everyday eye of a poppy, or the flash of glass-green as a wave breaks; not merely saluting blue—the infinite cover over us—but the power of beauty to arrest even the most important activity. Like no other, beauty forces us to stop. A lovely ... read more
The Love Affair
Who can tell if this photo is sunrise or sunset? Did God cause the contrails to form so they would exactly follow the power lines? Does it matter? How do we know anything without mulling it over between us? G K Chesterton once said, "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love ... read more
Sunday Sunrise
Fog. It is cursed for hiding things. Blessed for taking off the edges. And beauty stands guard over it all. . ... read more
The Apple of Your Eye
Just a little thought today. Apple of your eye--literally in Hebrew means: Little Man of the Eye. Easy to remember believers are the apple of God's eye. Our little man reflections in the great eye of God. Uncompromised attention, loyalty and protection. "He found him in a desert land, and in the howling ... read more
