SHOCK AND AWE!!

he'll be back, mark my words!!

Blogging the Bible...

I have always been a proud Jew, but never a terribly observant one. Several weeks ago, I made a rare visit to synagogue for a cousin's bat mitzvah and, as usual, found myself confused (and bored) by a Hebrew service I couldn't understand. During the second hour of what would be a ceremony of NFL-game-plus-overtime-length, I picked up the Torah in the pew-back, opened it at random, and started reading (the English translation, that is).

I was soon engrossed in a story I didn't know, Genesis Chapter 34. It begins with the rape of Jacob's daughter Dinah by Shechem, the son of a local chief named Hamor. Shechem and Hamor visit Jacob and his brothers to resolve the mess. Hamor begs on Shechem's behalf: Shechem loves Dinah, he says, and yearns to marry her. Hamor and Shechem offer to share their land with Jacob's family and pay any bride price if...(more here)

this is how i feel...

...AND I'M NOT LIKING IT

Trust me

three little words...

...you and me.

writing...writing...

writing...writing...

resolve...

Lately I've been too busy to post, at least not on a daily basis, since I am:
* Navigating the later teen years with my daughters
* Writing my Doctoral dissertation
* Planning lessons for my classes at RCSS
* Leading the Marathon Clinic at the RunInn
* Preparing to speak to 250 teachers on March 2 on "Teenage Spirituality"

Nevertheless, I find it cathartic to post when I can. For now, a picture or two will have to do.

More in a bit...




NOT EXACTLY LEVEL

2 more days !!!!!!!!!!

Who's it Gonna be?

Excruciating

Christ's prayer, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do," became a kind of sermon or word which converted the thief. In the same instance the thief's faith was immediately put to the test. For very soon afterward He who had promised him that he should be with Him in paradise sighs and says, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

This was the one upon whom the thief had built his hope!


It is much easier to suffer on account of one's sin than to suffer because one relates herself to God.

kierkegaard