I Am Sick

Being sick always reminds me of two things; being well is not my right but just a miraculous occurrence and secondly, how good it is to almost always participate in that miracle. 

I need to worship Somebody.

Worship Songs That No One Recognizes

I have a run off stream beside my home which is normally a snarling overgrowth lined with rough limestone and filled with mosquito larvae.  However after a good rain the water sweeping across the stone is like Joe Cocker singing You Are So Beautiful, out of character but completely beautiful. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6xfpLqn5IM

The Unexamined Life

To know our self is to know ones greatest need, to be saved from our self.  Most live a life of acquaintance or even stranger to self, never knowing our need to know our self nor giving our self a reason to know us.

Norman Rockwell's Self Portrait 

The Athenian School Of Bugs Bunny

I was visiting with a friend yesterday and he was struggling.  At one point he said he should take the advise of the great philosopher Bugs Bunny, who said, “Don’t take life so seriously cause ain’t none of us gettin out alive.” 

 

We Might Need To Try To Hear

I sit in the woods of my neighborhood this morning listening to the slight drone of I 40 some two miles away.  While writing this sentence I began to be conscious of the birds singing in the woods surrounding me.  A great truth; we will hear what we are listening too.  Another great truth, God always seems to be whispering, as if to say “if you want to hear Me you have to listen.”   It is a great tragedy that most of us are not interested in hearing God but of straining to hear the interstate of popular culture miles away.