“Ms. Clairborne, please remain seated. Do not leave your room. All hospital personnel have been alerted to your presence. Do not make this harder on yourself than necessary.”
Liz ignored the voice from speaker on the desk and finished getting dressed. She stepped over the male orderly who was sleeping soundly on the floor, a victim of the hypodermic he had intended to use on her.
“We have forgotten — or perhaps never really understood — what it means to trust that God is in control.
Politics matters.
But we have forgotten that good political leaders were supposed to be our gift to the world.
Now we think they are something the world has to give us, so we can truly practice our faith — or feel good about ourselves.
So whenever we see a leader — inside or outside the church — who doesn’t seem to honor our truth, we are filled with anguish; and act like God has abandoned us… ”
Music Playlist: The Agony of Hope
aka The Practice of ImPresence
or How to Escape Enframing
The (hopeful) resolution of lessons learned during my years spent in the Valley of Achor.
Continue readingTickets available now! (For both 10am and 1pm on Thu Sept 2)
I often get frustrated when others don’t see what I do. This passage makes me wonder what others see that I do not:
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Continue reading
A more deliberately introspective version the Spirit section (between Word and Body, as in IGWET). Inspired by DBJ “AGONY” Edition.
Continue readingRound the Bend is a Nevil Shute novel about Tom, a British airplane mechanic who moves to the Middle East after his wartime marriage ends in disaster.
In our online book club, I had a long but inconclusive discussion with my father about why Tom did that. This vignette is my attempt to explore that question via an alternate reality.
Continue readingThis story blew me away. His private Easter feels like it has become mine. Thanks, Mitch.
‘A Boy in the Forest’ by Pikila When I was a young man, I began searching for the meaning of life. Along the way, I wrote a travel journal, a mix of …
My Own Private Easter
God’s Kingdom is Coming
But not as they expect
Or I expect.
I am at another startup
We have just gotten a new interim CEO
Everyone is skeptical
Especially the Engineers
Because the CEO
is actually the (former?) mayor
Of a nearby town
(Small but with a large population)
Everyone is expecting him
To be a slick extrovert
With no substance
Or Intellectual depth
When we are in pain, we shrink.
We pull away from other people
Or our connections become
One-way tunnels
Focused on our needs
Or a misguided attempt to control them.
MIT is being renovated.
I am leading a tour group.
Like I used to do.
We come from the East.
The standalone buildings on that side
Are most functional.
But the large complex in the heart of campus
The Infinite Corridor
Is completely surrounded in yellow tape.
In fact
The large buildings in the center
Are partly demolished. Continue reading
This Tuesday, August 17th we finish our summer 2021 Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice series meditating on emotional security via Psalm 139, incorporating elements of DBJ AGONY Edition.
Continue reading[A prophetic word from my cousin, an American citizen who leads a team of missionaries in India. — Ernie P.]
Attached are some of the thoughts God has given for the States. Usually, the word of knowledge comes in part and sharing it at the right place brings greater clarity. I felt the Lord wanted me to type all that He has to say this morning.
Continue readingI am in a cavernous store, the size of COSTCO.
It is basically a tourist trap.
Actually part of a series.
In a resort.
In the mountains.
This one is a candy store.
Each day they take us to a different one.
I wasn’t interested so I wandered off.
Overcoming enmity, by going the extra mile, in order to grow us all closer to Jesus.
See also:
Continue readingWhen there is nothing constructive left
To learn, think through, or repent
I must do the work of an intercessor
And trust God for what happens next
Meditations from my cousin, John Dayalan Edward.
It’s in moments of great weakness we discover His strength as we are turned towards Him
And it is moments of brokenness that brings out the best of fragrance from us, as we are at His feet.
It is a hot day.
I leave my dog in the car.
This Tuesday, July 27th we reprise our Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice by meditating on justice and injustice via Psalm73.
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