I really hate doing this, but my husband always says, “you have not because you ask not”. Which he claims is some religious saying or something. 😉 But I just wanted to throw out there that this is the week in the northern part of the country when the gas and electric companies can start turning off service for those who have overdue bills. Which would … Continue reading Electric Bills and Other Embarrassing Problems

Oh my gosh, guys. That post on judging was much harder to write than I thought it would be. It took forever. I hope you will check it out and maybe pass it along. I think it’s important. The gap between the world and the church on the subject of judging is destroying the church. We need more Christians who are obedient to Jesus and are properly equipped to demonstrate God’s love to the world.

The church has taught us to think we know the answers, but we’ve never been obedient enough to actually learn them. I’ve said before that there’s a reason “don’t judge” is the one teaching of Jesus absolutely everyon knows and that people use to clobber the church. God knew if he didn’t make sure we heard that teaching a bajillion times, we’d pretend it didn’t exist.

As is, most of us resort to pretending Jesus didn’t really mean it when he said not to judge.  At least not without certain caveats, boundaries and protections in place. Jesus never meant for us to be foolish. Except that we’re talking about a man whose teachings got all of his closest friends killed. Which is kind of a damn fool thing to do.

Anyways, I was dumb enough to take it seriously and I am happy to report that there’s a very good reason Jesus gave us this instruction. So . . . now you know . . . pass it on.

After that last post I needed something easy to put up. Because clearly, I’ve been thinking way too deeply about things today. And I remembered that I’ve been meaning to share Humans of New York with you. They have over 4 million facebook followers and a New York Times bestselling book, so some of you have heard of this. But some of you probably have not. Which is a situation that needs to be rectified, post haste.

So, this photographer set out to take pictures of 10,000 New Yorkers (the city, not the state). His intention was to put the pictures on a map geographically. Which would only be interesting for other New Yorkers, really. Luckily for us, the project ended up taking a different turn.

We always kind of think of something like street photography as basically someone who walks around saying, “hey can I take your picture?”, taking a snap shot of the weirdoes who agree and that’s it. In reality, this sort of street photography is a lot of work and takes a great deal of skill. Not just technical skill, but people skills as well.

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Hey – do you know what day it is? Hump day! Continue reading “I Have Engraved You In My Palms”