Once upon a time, a dastardly villian took a girl out to sea and left her there in the water, in the dark. She knew she was in a struggle for her life. Although it was night and she could see nothing, she couldn’t tolerate just waiting. So she took off swimming in the direction she thought land was. She swam though the night until … Continue reading On Treading Water
A random thought to ponder: Just because you think something, doesn’t mean you have to say it. Continue reading Your Daily Cud
A random thought to ponder: After the angels who announced the birth of Jesus, only demons ever spontaneously recognized Jesus as “Son of the most high God.” The devil’s theology is probably more perfect that yours or mine will ever be. Except that he doesn’t understand love. Continue reading Your Daily Cud
A random thought to ponder: If you want to understand life, look for the dynamics underlying what you see. Learn to spot these dynamics at work in different circumstances and contexts and the whole world will open up to you. Continue reading Your Daily Cud
A random thought to ponder: In some tribes with high infant mortality rates, new mothers give their infants jewelry and beautiful trinkets in an attempt to entice them to stay. Continue reading Your Daily Cud
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” — James Baldwin Continue reading This is So True
A random thought to ponder: We too often think that our wildest notions about God represent the outer limits rather than the jumping off point. “Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered into mind of man what God has planned.” Continue reading Your Daily Cud
Some days I can handle more stupid, some days I can handle less stupid. We need to learn to respect each other’s limitations. My brain is very, very tired right now. Some days my random thoughts are more interesting than others. This should make up for it: I saw a mamma fox with three kits tonight. A little later and a few miles away I … Continue reading Random Thoughts
You would not believe the problems I have had getting online the last two day. Seriously. If anyone would like to send me $400 to upgrade my internet, that would be so awesome. It took me about 4 hours to get ours working today. Yesterday, it just randomly fritzed out about 20 times. So, yeah. That kind of makes it hard to be consistent. We … Continue reading Consistently Inconsistent Part Deux
A random thought to ponder: We don’t have to become perfect; just better. Continue reading Your Daily Cud
The Upside Down World 