Ecclesiastes 7:8-9 “The end of a matter is better than its beginning; patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit. Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, for anger resides in the bosom of fools.” Yesterday I was angry. It put me in a very different frame of mind than I had over Thanksgiving in which
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I’m pissed this evening. No use hiding it. So, sorry if I’m a bit squirrelly today. I attended a mandatory “media group” meeting today. It’s killing me right now that I’m not at liberty to be completely authentic about it. I want to say some things. It really, really bothered me. Yet even so, it seems as though it used
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One of my purposes for this site is to alert you to new books that may miss your radar screen. So I’ve got 2 minutes to create this post, so I’ll just take a moment to point out a new book that’s just been published and looks pretty promising so far: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. If you read it, let
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So how was your Thanksgiving? Mine was a lot of fun. I’m really fat. Shouldn’t have eaten so much, but I didn’t want to worry about it. So I didn’t. I ate tons. My estimate was about 20,000 calories in just under 4 hours. It’s probably not a record, but it’s a small wonder I didn’t explode. Went for a
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Part of me agrees, you know. I wish I could stop talking about it too, this revolution. But apparently, I’m just not supposed to shut up about it yet. I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving, and I’m feeling so–well, frankly, unbalanced about it, how strong the impulse to praise God is in me. Though the usual discontent hasn’t gone away, so
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