OK, achievement hunter. Tell me about your big ideas, dreams, and plans. Or are you an achievement hunter with lots of awards and trophies? Maybe you can speak three languages, program computers, and engineer bridges. Or maybe you make sure people know you for your: philosophical meanderings, cataclysmic discoveries, geographical conquests, sharp ear for nuance, acute awareness of your surroundings, world-changing inventions, modern machinery, … Read the rest…
Category Archives: Faith Hope and Love
At the risk of sounding like a guy who wears rose-colored glasses, I believe Heaven holds a place for dreamers. Of course, I believe you don’t get to Heaven because you’re a dreamer or a visionary. And I don’t include secular humanists, atheists, and other garden variety pagans. Because their ideas of dreaming tend to get perverted. By the way, you can experience a … Read the rest…
After I graduated high school in Texas my brother and I moved to my mom’s house. She and my stepdad lived in a country house just outside a very small town in eastern Kansas. Population 1500, at that time. I got a job at a local lumberyard. And one of the guys who worked there dated the sister of a girl I was dating. … Read the rest…
Backbone controller from your Holy roller
If you could take it out and look at it, your spinal cord would look something like an electrical cord with a bunch of little tentacles. In fact, they’ve probably used a spinal cord as inspiration for a science fiction character or two. I don’t know of one, personally. But it wouldn’t surprise me. Your spinal cord is your backbone controller. But that’s oversimplifying … Read the rest…
OK, let’s get this Monday going. I hope your day and week will be awesome. I start my Monday morning with faith. And that helps me find and hear music in my head. That’s nothing new. But a few minutes ago I started pondering how that happens. And you know what? It doesn’t happen in my cells. It doesn’t happen in my blood. And … Read the rest…
Live your life with thanksgiving, you turkey (more on that in a bit). And don’t just “get through” each day by moaning and groaning. There’s a humongous canyon between living your life and just slogging through. To live it requires thoughts, joy, and action. So, “to live” shouldn’t be a passive experience. Because that results in letting life happen to you rather than thinking … Read the rest…
Because those traits are important, Paul wrote to Christians in Corinth and said: “For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.” And that’s how I like it, too. Simplicity and sincerity. I know those aren’t … Read the rest…