Embedded Posts Resting Here on My Bed of Nails

As I get older, my patience listening to news and commentary gets thinner. That is why I prefer reading news and transcripts. Thank God I learned speed reading early in adulthood.

Retrospect would be pretty useless same for this fact There is a future in which we are called upon to act And if the past, with failures and some Yet - there are times I long for a vacation from thinking and knowing. Times, I say, some, I say. Not all, not often, not for long. I do not enjoy having points of view - not always. I just do and everyone is entitled to my opinion, I suppose. Or not. Your choice. God bless you.

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Some days I weary of having a point of view. I can change my vantage & expand my view, but I haven't figured out how to -unknow what I know, -unsee what I see, -unhear what I hear, or unshackle myself from the compulsion to cry out and invite others to know, see, hear, think.

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So I comment, cry out, question probe, agitate, irritate, & think out loud for myself, for others, for what I sense is the call of God, & for truth to broaden my own understanding & those of others for the core principles I embrace & the sometimes subtle truths that refine them.

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I love Uber, but must budget & prioritize. I love my wife, but I have to work into her busy schedule. I live 10 miles from the nearest bus. I really don't like to beg for rides. I'm not driving for your safety & mine. If I don't show up for something, forgive me. I love you too

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"From heaven you pronounced judgment; the earth was afraid and was still; When God rose up to judgment and to save all the oppressed of the earth." - Psalm 76:8-9

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A customer shared an oft-repeated response of surprise when I told her that we weigh the books at Joseph's Java Junction to determine their price (5 cents an ounce). It is either light reading or heavy reading.

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Contention or contemplation? I contend we cannot be ultimately contented with either out of balance.

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Love threatens and intimidates us down to the core where we must authentically contend with it or not at all

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Am I willing to sacrifice intimacy in order to never be intimidated?

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The vulnerability of one laid bare before the presence of pure love is both intimate and intimidating

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How many "have-to"s can we turn to "get-to"s today? What will it change (other than our own attitudes and capacities)?

4 years ago, I recorded this message from the hospital.