…there is so much crap being thrown at us that the only logical conclusion we can make is that we must be getting close to something big, and so the Enemy has assigned a minion to attempt to derail us.
There are other indications that a major transition is coming up for us; God has been [...]
I’ve been thinking about these Waterdeep lyrics:
The revolution came
And the revolution died.
We believed all of the leaders
But the leaders just lied.
Sitting in a jail
With a bitter grudge to bear.
Released as a loner
With nothing left to share
(chorus:)
Make a tower tall
Make a tower high
Build it so big that it just
Rips through the sky.
Scramble up the language,
Try to [...]
I’ve been reading Marva Dawn’s Keeping the Sabbath Wholly. It is not a new book, but it is very, very good. The book is organized around the themes of Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, and Feasting. Dawn makes a good case for starting and ending Sabbath in the evenings, which is something that I [...]
I read BoingBoing.net occasionally, ignoring the posts that are offensive to me as a Christian. But Richard Dawkins on the warpath against Christians is a bit much, especially when he is essentially arguing that Christian belief makes one mentally unfit for any professional career, even when superlatively qualified.
Science is impotent to prove [...]
Today I’m quite tired, and probably coming down with something. TLG woke up all bright and happy at 4 am this morning, but I was awake then anyway–I’ve reached the phase where I’m starting to shift to the baby’s sleep schedule. The baby was kicking with gusto at 4 am too.
Last [...]
I just finished reading Radical Homemakers, by Shannon Hayes, and I thought it was mostly good. She lays out how American households transformed from centers of production to centers of consumption, gives the currently ascendant corporatism a sound thrashing, and presents what she has learned from families making the transition back to a home-centered [...]
Prediction Fourteen: All the gloom and doom I predicted in Predictions One through Thirteen will not be the whole story.
It’s relatively easy to see what the forces of evil are up to. Not always easy, though, to see what God is doing. There will be at least a remnant preserved, but who [...]
I reread The Allure of Hope, by Jan Meyers. This is how I summed it up to MFH: “Our suffering from unmet desires should draw us closer to God.” We were meant for Eden, and that’s not where we are right now; it is not evil to desire good things.
Prediction Eleven: Within the next fifty or one hundred years, physical books will be declared to be a significant health hazard, and owning them will be strongly discouraged. TSIAH! TSIAH! (Probably there will also be an effort to do away with most physical paperwork as well; a virtual memory hole is [...]
1. Hanging laundry to dry means that I can wash the loads faster; don’t have to wait for the dryer to finish each load.
2. Handwashing all the dishes every day means I get to use my favorite dishes every day.
3. Lulu.com is offering a coupon for $3.99 off shipping (i.e. free shipping [...]