26 September 2007

So Excited about This News Bulletin!!

Anybody who teaches that someone is less valuable than someone else is wrong, wrong, wrong, and I'm thrilled that this guy is finally getting nailed for his sinful and revolting use of authority to manipulate and control an entire community.

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18 August 2007

Sales Effort

We are really overwhelmed, here in America, by the drive to buy, obtain, and shop. Don't we realize we have enough stuff? Why do we collect things like squirrels storing seeds and nuts, frantically waiting for the first blast of winter?

Maybe we who are redeemed have forgotten that the Lord provides for all our needs. We don't need to squirrel stuff away, because though hard times may (and certainly do) come, we need not fear.

It may be that my retail job hypersensitizes me to our crass greed and covetousness. There's a girl I know who gets migraines from bright fluorescent lights. Where she was miserable, her office-mates wondered if she was a little kooky. Maybe it's like that with me. I'm getting a migraine from all the effort being put into chloroforming my common sense and making me feel like I need another house plant or a new color lipstick or a prettier sofa or a more expensive conditioner, where other people just look at me and go "Humph" to themselves when I leave the room.

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17 August 2007

Object Lessons

I often think about how creation teaches us about the Creator. The Westminster Confession says,

Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary unto salvation. --WCF I.1.
It's true, of course. But for those of us who know Jesus, who know the secrets of the parables in Scripture* and the meaning of all the object lessons he put into creation, the truths of the natural world illuminate in deeper clarity the truths taught in Scripture.

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*I allude here to Luke 8:10, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.' "

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26 July 2007

Redirect

Well, we are back from Vacation Phase II. I've been processing and reprocessing and...in Harry Potter Land. I've truly been savoring this one, since it is the last one. I only have about 200 pages left.

And my big chance for a different employment situation isn't a go for this year. BUT I am working on classes at Covenant. Did you know they have expanded their offerings for teaching directions? Heh heh. Yay.

And today I have a bad earache, although it's more of a congestion problem that is affecting my hearing. Maybe I'm a victim of the muffliato spell, though.

I believe that is all for now. Keep in touch.

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1 July 2007

Neo, You are The One

If you have found the one your heart loves, you know what I mean when I say "He's the one! I just know."

If you have now, I know that "I just know he's the one" makes you mad because you don't know what it means.

Well, this upcoming possibility for me is the one. The elusive, the amazing, the one -- the answer -- The One I have been waiting for.

You previous career ideas for reinventing myself a la Madonna...you were all just like the guys I thought I loved. But you, the upcoming possibility -- you are The One and I know it, the same way I knew The Dude was The One for me.

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24 June 2007

Gulf Shores

Beach. Sun. Sand. Family.

Yes.

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