A Word About Unseen I’ve been thinking lately about what it feels like to be… unseen. Not ignored, exactly. Not rejected. Just kind of … invisible. Maybe you’ve had that kind of day, or season in your life, too. It may feel like the world is moving faster than you are. The noise of…
A Word About Capitulation Sometimes, I have the hardest time keeping things straight—what I let myself believe, where I allow my focus to drift, what voices I listen to that may be trying to navigate and narrate the story of my life. This past week, someone close to me said something that helped redirect…
A Word About Tattoos My wife recently spent several weeks in a skilled nursing facility, due to a fall she had. And there were so many wonderful nurses and other attendants who helped in her care. One of the nurses had a large tattoo on her left arm that I noticed one day while…
A word about,… Gratitude I wonder? I do wonder, like most people, I suppose, about a lot of things. But today, I wonder about how different things would be for me, if … If I lived a truly grateful life? What would it mean to the way I think, the way I act, the way I live, if every…
A word about,… Phrases Sometimes, I catch myself saying things I haven’t really thought through. They’re often phrases that I use, but when I really examine them, I discover are pretty empty of meaning, really. They’re almost like ‘fillers’ or ‘fluff’ in trying to communicate. For example, I caught myself the other day using…
A Word About Possessing,… I was driving home the other day when I passed a parked truck that looked exactly like my truck. I glanced in the rearview mirror and I said out loud: “I think that’s my truck back there.” Turns out I was wrong. It had a different license plate than…
A Word About … Modalities. I got to thinking about that word the other day, modalities, as I was reading the Gospels contemplating Palm Sunday, and the Lord Jesus riding into Jerusalem on that donkey. I found myself thinking about how Jesus ‘got along,’ how he got from one place to another in his…
A Word About Time,… Where in the world does the time go, I wonder, when time goes by? And how many times have I used that phrase? As time’s clock ticks the moments of my life away, After a second has passed … Does it go somewhere? Is there some great vault of moments, Where the God…
A Word about,… Stale Ken Jones · Classic State Of Mind – Stale I don’t know anyone who has a fondness for a dry, ‘stale’ anything. A stale joke isn’t funny. For me, a stale cup of coffee isn’t even drinkable. Stale air isn’t fit to be breathed. And any way you slice it,…
A Word About RSV People familiar with various editions and translations of the bible know those various translations by their initials. The King James version, for example, is often identified in literature when quoted as the KJV. And the New King James version is noted as the NKJV. The New American Standard is the…