Lilacs, Less Than, Greater Than

Last week I passed my lilac bush and pulled down a cluster of these beautiful, purple blossoms that are such harbingers of spring and breathed in the deeply pungent aroma. The smell of lilacs has got to be the most primal of pleasant nature aromas going far back into my toddlerhood. The smell is so deeply embedded in my brain that just one deep inhalation leaves me reeling in some wonderful way with the perfection of the scent. It is...

The Only Sane Response

“In WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, Kurt Vonnegut Jnr writes, “a sane person in an insane society must appear insane”. Thomas Stephen Szasz contends: “Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society”. And the British psychiatrist R. D. Laing said insanity was “a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world”. I think I recall Star Trek’s Mr Spock saying something similar.” – Source (I’m not vouching for the content of this entire article–it is simply the first that popped up with the quote...

The Pool of Sorrow is Very Deep

We are told in the book of Isaiah that Jesus was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief and suffering. We are told in the book of Hebrews that for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross. We are told in Galatians that He became the curse for us, because cursed in everyone that hangs on a tree. In these days, the hearts of children are piercing–even cursing–the hearts of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, family and friends....

They Rush on the City, They Run on the Wall

This song came to mind today and I listened a number of times. It came to mind as a song I knew and praise-danced to many years ago. My thoughts were also with Psalm 81, and of course, I searched to find where the lyrics of this Hebrew-Messianic sounding song were to be based upon–a part of Joel 2 . ~~~~~ 1 Sing for joy to God our strength;    shout aloud to the God of Jacob!2 Begin the music, strike the timbrel,    play the...