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When God Sees Us (When We See Him Not)

Today I was listening to the Psalms and a verse got my attention. And tonight, I had an object lesson that will better enable my expression here. The verse was Psalm 32:8, and I have selected three different translations below, with the first being what I was listening to in my Old Testament audiobook. “I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.” (NRSV) “I will instruct you...

Broken.

In the past four weeks the theme of both broken and especially, breaking, has been in the forefront of my spiritual and cognitive contemplations. The week of the end of January/beginning of February felt especially significant. I’m only willing to articulate here the tip of the internal iceberg and summarize that the time period since then has been marked by an intentional cleansing of my home, heart, soul and life of some particular material items that I sensed had representative...

Banana Days

Now I know That I knew nothing back then All I thought I knew Was another day where we might take a walk Around the mobile home park Where I might vacuum the rug Throw in some laundry Turn on the TV We might sit on the couch With the morning sun peeking through some lace curtains Maybe you would like a banana and I would hand you one and sit and watch you eat it Maybe we would chat...