Another beautiful Sunday.

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I woke up at 4am. Couldn’t get back to sleep, so I played around on Army Builder for a while. Then I hit the hay again just around daybreak and slept in to a respectable 10am. My darling wife made me biscuits and gravy with sausage for breakfast. Washed down with some lime-ade in a tall glass of ice. Yumsters.

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Church was edifying as usual; a time to jot down some ideas and get my head on straight. My main challenges as you know stem from business and money. The trick is to keep the right priorities on the top of the list. The rest will follow. That said, the work has to be put in. I don’t think I’ve been working hard enough, or really organzing myself very well. I’ve got about five ideas to try this week.

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That’s the challenge of the young father. I’ve got to do right by family and community, but also make sure the bills are paid.

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In the new testament, it is very rare for Jesus to do anything for someone that they cannot do for themselves. He provides only the miraculous intervention after the possible has been done. The healing of the man with palsy is illustrative in my view. The man and his relatives had to make a journey on their own initiative, overcome an obstacle (a trial of their faith) first, then the miracle. Even after that, the man is told to take his bed and go home. He is not carried home.

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I think this also shows that Jesus’s business is the transformation of souls. I may not have physical deformities (which are for this life only), but I have spiritual leprosy; things that cannot be cured or change on my own impetus. God has the power to change the nature of the human heart– to convert both body, mind and spirit into something beautiful. This is what I have sought in my life. The first step is to realize that the leprosy isn’t getting any better.

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Reminds me of one of my favorite scriptures:

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh. –Ezekiel 11:9

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PS- Guess what happens the morning after you eat ten large oatmeal-raisin cookies?

PPS- don’t mean to come across as preachy, just thought I’d open the old brain-pan a creak and in case anyone wants to take a look-see.