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If you’ve ever taken on a home renovation project, you know the difficulty that comes from what your eyes tell you and what your laser, level, or plumb bob tells you. These items are intriguing to me. Useful tools to tell me what is actually true even if the sight lines lie. My current project,Continue reading “Lasers, Levels, and Plumb Bobs”

“Can the leopard change his spots” is the question asked by Jeremiah. It was intended to be a rhetorical question; the obvious, no need to answer answer is no, a leopard cannot change his spots. In an earlier chapter he makes the comment “Although you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stainContinue reading “Do You See What I See?”

Humanity has the uncanny ability to value the wrong things and devalue the most important things. We also live in a world of blame, where when something goes wrong, we feel compelled to focus our attention(negative or positive) on someone. In our current cultural confusion it’s easy to see both of these things happening withContinue reading “Human Institutions”

Our day calls for a lot of soul-searching and being a thoughtful introvert, I can appreciate the challenge of trying to draw in a lot of information and comes to grips with my own thoughts (not that it matters much, the internet is full of thought but almost no hearing so the vanity of hearingContinue reading “Mystics and Revolutions”

Like many of you, I feel distracted from any one issue to give it the thought required for it to come to some usefulness. The to feel that way about a dozen or more issues, to realize that even if I came to some resolute clarity about it that would breathe life into our deadnessContinue reading “Where Do I Focus”

As a young adult I always wondered why some sports teams always seemed to be successful and others always seemed to falter. Then as part of a Seminary class we started talking about systems, and it really opened my eyes to bigger pictures than I was formerly capable. Systems are everywhere. Every group of peopleContinue reading “Justice for Some, Broken Systems, Righteousness”

Adam and Eve couldn’t keep from eating the fruit, Cain was jealous of Abel and murdered him, this is the beginning story of humanity and it’s not been much better since. As of today the temptation is to talk about racISM. As the week goes on I will do just that, but for today IContinue reading “ISMS and the many melanin/non-melanin issues”

This is the beginning of the fourth year on our property. Everything you see in the above picture is new since then. We purchased the property for many reasons, but part of it was the blank slate with which we could transform it into our tastes. There are hundreds of subtleties that require your attentionContinue reading “Become”

“We all possess knowledge. But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.” I Cor 8:2 The first century church had an issue with meat sacrificed to idols. Do you buy your lamb from the local farmer or do you go to the Temple of some god you don’t worship and get a denarius off andContinue reading “Puffing or Loving”

In the course of time there are things we say, those things aren’t considered much, people keep saying it, then before you know it, everyone says it and it might not have ever made sense… but we still say it. And we say it a whole lot. What’s at the core of this saying andContinue reading “Donkeys Y Dios”