Life has Spoken

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And it’s declared that there’s no blogging to do recently.

Seriously…

I’ve wanted to write a dozen times lately but simply have not had the time.  Between Christmas and New Year’s travels, the being of and hosting of guests, the “getting back into routine” time after the holiday, busier-than-usual-at-work days, computer breakdowns (hopefully fixed today), plumbing frustrations (also hopefully fixed today because we are hiring plumbing services dallas tx), and just a general shortage of hours per day lately,… blogging just hasn’t made the cut.

And it won’t today either.

Thanks to those who’d call me their friend today; I’m glad you do.  Many of you have passed through my mind lately.

Good Words

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A few years back, I was given “The Two Year Bible”. Yes, that’s the lite version of “The One Year Bible”, and no, I don’t know why I received it. But I decided to open it up with this new year.

In the midst of a thousand discussions about Christianity, the church, faith and culture, and more; I often feel like my head is swimming. Some of the discussions have merit; some are simply sophisticated-sounding forms of whining or grumbling.

But every so often, something shines through with enough brightness that you know it’s for real. Today, that “something” was Psalm 1:

1 Oh, the joys of those who do not
follow the advice of the wicked,
or stand around with sinners,
or join in with mockers.
2 But they delight in the law of the Lord,
meditating on it day and night.
3 They are like trees planted along the riverbank,
bearing fruit each season.
Their leaves never wither,
and they prosper in all they do.

Don’t get sucked into bad stuff.

Delight in what God loves.

This will make your life a good thing.

Call me simple if you must, but I can work with that.

Two Blogs

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A couple of our favourite couples have blogs that you should know about, in case you don’t already…

Craig & Leah “Sass Girl” Reid are heading to Korea and write some “must read” stuff HERE.

Brian & Charla Cox hold down one of the finest corners in Brandon and are both known to post HERE.

He Already Knew

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Reading John 6 recently, I only made it 6 verses in.  A crowd had gathered around Jesus…

When Jesus looked out and saw that a large crowd had arrived, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread to feed these people?”  He said this to stretch Philip’s faith.  He already knew what he was going to do.

He already knew.

Then why’d he ask?  To stretch Philip and the faith he held.

I love the image of Jesus that this verse depicts in my mind.  Jesus is the Playful Pusher–I’ll bet he smiled as he asked that question, fully aware of how it would make Philip’s wheels spin.  I suspect he took pleasure in the knowledge that his disciple’s mental processor was not going to handle what he was loading into it.

And that brings me a sense of pleasure.

Because I need a Master who demands more of me than what I’m currently capable of, and I need a Lord who knows my limitations enough that he can lovingly meet me on the borders of who I should be, but am not yet.

Once again, I’m reminded that he is truly good to me.

Say What?!

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Special thanks to Steve Kerr, one of Yahoo!’s NBA writers, for this little nugget.

And to Kobe for being a tad dense when it comes to things like speaking…

Quote of the Week
“He doesn’t seem to have much of a conscience. I haven’t gotten used to that mentality of just chucking it up there.” – Kobe Bryant after Gilbert Arenas exploded for 60 points in a win at Staples over the Lakers. As Alanis Morissette would say, “Isn’t it ironic?”