Post hospital-stay musings

Post hospital-stay musings

My recent 4-days in a hospital bed were revealing. They were a no-choice life-interruption to be served, a time of childlike helplessness, a brief season of switched roles, a hiatus of normal activities and responsibilities. I’ve written before about the quality of...
Above All Names

Above All Names

If you speak prophetically (and accurately) about your own death, as well as your resurrection, are you worthy to be trusted? If you repeatedly exhibit God’s miraculous powers over a span of three and a half years, are you worthy to be trusted? If, as you are dying by...
With red, heart-shaped boxes?

With red, heart-shaped boxes?

According to the National Retail Federation, you and I spent $25,800,000,000 (yes, that is supposed to be billions!) on recent Valentine’s Day purchases: greetings cards #1, then candy, #2, then flowers, #3. When I visited the card shop looking for that perfect...
“No. I insist. You first.”

“No. I insist. You first.”

When Election Year rolls around in countries around the world, heavily politicized cultures begin to spasm, churn, and prognosticate about the eventual outcome and what it will mean. Extreme views run rampant. The vilifying of opponents is commonplace. Doomsday...
That’s so yesterday! And so today!

That’s so yesterday! And so today!

It’s about survival. Almost a survival of the fittest, like in jungles. The public ‘mood’ of our times is rough and ready, gritty, me-myself-and-I, perpetually offended, unmoored from pleasantness, mannerliness, outward shows of recognition of the existence (much less...