Shut Up and Keep Going

We have the greatest tool on earth.  It is capable of marvelous feats of endurance, it can fix almost any thing, it can take us everywhere, it can build, make and create and it is fairly easily maintained.  It is our body.  The problem is our body is a whiner; it continually complains and seeks relief.  If left to its own devices it will go un-bathed, unkempt and uncaring laying on any surface that allows it to go horizontal.  If you made your body walk you to California it would but you would have to listen to it whine the whole way until it got you there.  Once there it would probably declare, “I’m going home” and would walk you back to spite itself. 

It is a good practice to continually tell your body to “Shut up!” and to “Keep going!”

Home Entertainment by Peter Ravn

Do You Believe in Sponge Bob?

There are brief moments when the thought of heaven…no, of dying and going to heaven, is as farfetched as Sponge Bob Square Pants.  It is too abstract for any part of my mind to encapsulate it.  That is when it is important to remember, “...and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”1 Corinthians 2:9

Unbelievable does not declare unbelief, it only underscores the only way to believe, ”for by grace you are saved through faith.”

Ephesians 2:8

The Great Whodunit

There is no joy in life that seems complete.  All things, events and relationships, however soaked in momentary ecstasy, end.  Endings are in many ways great evils, wickedness we cannot account for because all things end and the ultimate ending is the ultimate evil, death.  When considering this ending we must wonder where did the thought of eternity originate, when all we know is that all things end?  The Bible says that eternity is in the hearts of all humans.  Ecclesiastes 3:11

It is a mystery how we came to think up eternity when all we know is end.  That’s a Whodunit we all better try and solve before the ultimate end.

Go On

I write a lot about dawn.  It is a great constant in my life and one that renews me by its occurrence every morning.  The things I like about dawn are:

-I can see things clearly.

-It is the glorious wrapping paper on a new day.

-It gives me a place to begin, literally.  Beginning is a hopeful gift.

-It levels the playing field giving me the same opportunity that

         everyone else enjoys, the most and least gifted of us will

         be given 24 hours today.

-It allows me to live hopeful in urgency, because even though I

         know night cometh, it is hopefully followed by another dawn.

-It is often preceded, like this dawn, by sunlight, which is as great

         a natural miracle as I am likely to experience this day. 

         Even now it is turning all the tops of trees gold and in my

         greatest moments of creativity I cannot do that.

I could go one but hopefully this dawn has encouraged you to go on.

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Computers Don't Need White Out and Other Blessings

There is no end to life’s hardships.  Sons come by night and by dawn’s darkness are off onto the highway.  Parents are terminal with all manner of oldness.  Dogs pace the floor afraid they will be left and daughters lay sleeping in foreign places.  Things that keep my heart restful; the fire burns warmly in its place, the stars were there when I looked out and the earth is racing to warm itself by the sun.  The coffee trees keep growing beans, Nehemiah is rebuilding the wall, computers don’t need white out and my lover, while dozing now, is as beautiful as the day we wed.