Problems are for Solving

I have been having trouble of late with the government. I had a rental property get reassessed at triple the value I paid for it only two years ago. I have been battling with a non-communicative zoning department over a small problem that could have been solved quickly with just a little more communication. [...]

If all
Is vanity then why
Do we get out of bed?

Adopt a Terrorist for Prayer
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you
Matthew 5:44
I like this idea–we need to learn to love our enemies, even while punishing their wrong deeds through proper channels.
HT: Seth

Darkness
Dwelling in solitude
Wishing for a friend

Ok. So I got four comments on a post that I just threw together without really thinking about it. That’s more than I’ve gotten on a single post in quite some time. Which means people are reading and thinking (or at least a few of them) and so I’ll write about that.

If [...]

The Gospel Coalition | Vision
We cannot look at the poor and the oppressed and callously call them to pull themselves out of their own difficulty. Jesus did not treat us that way.
I read a blog each day (or most days) called Of First Importance which mostly has quotes that remind me of the centrality [...]

Life
Draining away
Was it ever there?

Deep Forgiveness at Femina
The Lord Jesus did not come, live a perfect life, die on the cross and come back from the dead in order to dab around the edges of our wound. Our complicity in the sin of Adam, and our continuing screwed-up-ness required a great remedy, which could not be had apart from [...]

leithart.com » Blog Archive » Clock time
With the mechanical clock, time became dissociated from planetary rhythms and seasons, from change and ageing, from experience and memory. It became independent from time and space, self-sufficient, empty of meaning and thus apparently neutral. This allowed for entirely new associations, linkages and contents to be developed [...]

Blindness
No light in my eyes
But seeing is more than sight