Archive for December, 2009

Every year I joke that my new year’s resolution is to make no resolutions, and I always keep it. It is a reflection of my distaste for arbitrary dates and traditions that place on me some obligation to do a certain thing in a certain way at a certain time. I probably won’t be...
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All I want for Christmas is a bucket to upchuck it.Saw it coming; couldn’t duck it. Why must I be happy to see this glee of red and green fallacy? Lend me your ear; give me a beer; shed a tearfor love lost, permafrost, forgotten death on a cross. To be a friend you...
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Thoughts prowling the dark places of the mind and heartHideous creatures barely contained behind gates with many locksFear, love, cold calculation, all not quite enoughRaging, growling, snarling, smashing against the bars!They must be controlled, lest they break free to rend and kill and destroy. I am the keeper, slave, and master.I love them, loathe...
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Dear God, I hope this letter reaches You, for it seems my prayers cannot. Empty words fall to the ground and cover it that no life may be found. Oh that You would answer me! Drive the doubts from my mind. Your silence kills me. Do You find so much evil in me? May...
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I was unaware that this has been in question.  As Randy Alcorn points out in his blog at the link below, the Bible is full of references to God’s emotions.  I’ve published my thoughts before on emotions, so this caught my attention.  If I think about it too much it puts me into a...
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