Five Unknowns

1. I used to wish I could walk on my hands. I can some, but when I was walking home from school, I imagined that I could just switch and walk on my hands instead of my feet. I think I lost the desire when I started carrying more stuff in my pockets.
2. I have a recurring dream that I can sort of fly. It is not flying like a bird using my arms as wings and it is not like Super Man with the dive pose. I just sort of jump and pick up my feet into a sitting position and just glide along. No one around seems to think anything of it. I guess I don't fly, I just jump really smooth and as far as I want to.
3. I served in the Army and several years after I got out of the Army, I enlisted in the Navy. I took tests and physicals and all kinds of things and then the Navy lost all my paper work. At that point I remembered what it was (besides the baggy britches) that I hated about the military in those days...they were sooooo inefficient... so government.
4. I was a dancer in a semi-professional chorus line in the musical "Take Me Along," and a tragedian in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead."
5. I have to get a new password everytime I write on this blog because I can never remember how to log on or what my password is.

None of that absentee Father stuff

Several times this week, I have been reminded of how my Heavenly Father is so unlike most earthly fathers. We want our kids to grow up. God wants us be always like children. We would sometimes like to find a place to just hide for a while. God, our Father, is always available. He treasures our company, even when we are so unlike him. Jesus said, "Do not hinder the little children from coming... Anyone who comes must come as a little child." We try to teach our kids to be independent. He wants us to know that we are dependent on Him. When we are "finished" we will look exactly like His Son.

Efficiency in following Christ

A few observations about the shooting in Nickel Mine, PA:

I only saw one Amish person speak to a microphone. It was a woman who said that the man who killed the little girls was just doing what he had been taught.

The next thing I noticed was the high-powered news folks with no one to talk to...no one to try to draw out some response of misery and hopelessness, because the separation from the world practiced by the Amish is real.

I heard an "expert" on the Amish say that they are very efficient in dealing with evil and good within their own society. Now that is a very flattering statement from the secular media. The only reason I would like to have seen some Amish allow interviews is so the lost world and the secularized followers of Christ could see how efficient dependence on Jesus can be.

In our moving about yesterday, we met a couple of Amish wagons on the Texas highway outside of Beeville. I commented to Judy that they probably did not even know about the meanness that had taken place in Pennsylvania. They were involved in what God had for them to do where they are. How efficient!

Perhaps the world would be more open to hearing the message of Christ if they could see, not how we can make it look like and fit into the popular culture, but how efficiently the Christ-life is regardless of the culture around it.

How about some free jams?

Assigning myself homework

What have I done? I have not updated this blog because I have a full and meaningful life; the kind of life that I hoped I would have back when I was in school. Of course, when one is in school he can have practically no life (especially if he has female teachers) because he is constantly doing "required work" to get a passing grade so that someday he can have that perfect life that comes with a proper education. I say "especially if he has female teachers" because it seemed that at whatever level, whether high school, university, or post graduate, a female teacher/professor's life was her course. I always had more reading and writing from the lady educators than from the men (unless they were effeminate men).
And now look at me. I have taken on a blog that really should be updated if it is going to exist. I have given myself homework - right here in the midst of the perfect life for which I was properly educated. Dang! Well, I have heard people say that things seldom turn out the way you expect them to. So, there you go.

If God is not gracious enough

If I get to judgement and find that God is not as gracious as I thought He was, I certainly hope that I find He is not as holy as I think He is. Because, there has never been a day, or for that matter an hour, when I have looked back and seen that I had lived perfectly God-honoring and holy for that period of time.
If God is not totally gracious and merciful...If the blood of Jesus does not cover each of my sins, confessed or unconfessed...If my faith in Jesus is not enough to have saved me and to keep me...If God grades on the curve, or if there is a sliding scale...Let me be in a group of sluggard at the throne.
Hebrews 7:25

A Whirl

What? No Comic Sans? I always write in Comic Sans. I have had a thought from time to time about what could be on a blog. Now I will give it a whirl. I hope something profound eventually occurs to me. Today is "set-up" day. Perhaps tomorrow profundity.