#Wordle 1,341 5/6*
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The #OldGal also posted a 5 today. I am seeing loads of 4s already from team #YoungPup. She once again been vanquished.
I am tired of the deconstruction conversation. I am grateful for deconstruction. I am tired of well meaning people trying to figure out “why” it is going on. The thing is, it seems to me almost very page of the Bible has stories of deconstruction.
It is the spiritual life.
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Why does Jesus do the miracle of turning water into wine? Could it be something more than just to keep the party going? Check out the latest post: Jesus in Conversation - His Mom
Jesus in Conversation - His Mom
Moms and sons have a special kind of dynamic. I know that my mom and I can communicate with a look. We have inside jokes and so much shared history that sometimes we don’t even need to say anything.
As I watch my own son and my wife, the same dynamic exists. They have an uncanny ability to simply understand one another. It’s almost like they can read one another’s minds at times.
Of course, there’s also the reality that sons are male and we often fail miserably at reading our mom’s minds. But, just like that special #girldad bond there is a #boymom bond that is unique too.
#Wordle 1,340 4/6*
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The #OldGal also popped a four today! Any #YoungPups floating around with a 3? Her three streak finally broke.
Good morning! May you become more aware of your personal blind spots so as to love well. #MorningMug #discipline2025
Once again, Bonhoeffer challenges us in a timely way.
Entirely too many of my colleagues are not submitting themselves to the way of the cross but to their own passions.
Oh that I (we) would learn this lesson well.
One way to love well is to develop healthy boundaries that free you to bond with others as equals, knowing that inherent in all people is both good and bad.
The most subversive things we can do in these times is love without condition, correct error with truth in grace, and acknowledge our own blind spots with humility.
Fermenting hate, denigrating the humanity of other people, and withholding mercy makes one the very thing they are opposed to.
We can do better.
I know we can.
I have seen it.
I can do better.
Sometimes when you’re working on sermon you get a bit overwhelmed by the text. I am going to teach Micah over the next three weeks and woof. It’s punching me in the gut.