The taunt rings out, mocking normal, trivial, mundane. Don’t they understand? We tried the weird, the slick… lives of decadence, years of lunacy. Get a life? If their jeers had hit our triggers, if they’d yelled in yester-year, we might […]
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Grace doesn’t treat us better than we deserve. It treats us without the slightest reference to what we deserve. Grace ceases to be grace if God withdraws it upon any human failure. If Grace is in any way tied to […]
Continue reading »A Growing Resentment
He has not mopped that floor all week! He goes off to his high and mighty office, draws a pittance compared to what he might had he taken my advice. He calls it business but when he makes no money […]
Continue reading »Meaningless?
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 1:2-3, NIV) We sweat. We strain. Our bodies ache, we’re wracked with pain. Hammerstein […]
Continue reading »Onlookers
But for every man who drinks others are involved – the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 104 Those who stand and watch. Innocent victims […]
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