Translucent moonlight
breaks through holes in the cloud bank:
outlines of shadows.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Of Old Cars and Passing Memories
We are no longer building cars that stand out.
Once upon a time, cars were built that were distinctive and unique. No-one ever mistook a 1956 Thunderbird or 1966 Mustang or a Datsun 280Z for any other kind of car. Even today, these cars remain recognizable - and valuable.
However, a great deal of cars are built today will not have the same lasting power. Most of them merge into one another, a flow of curves and body types to reduce drag, increase gas mileage, and go farther. And to a great extent, they all look almost exactly the same.
In other words, we have exchanged the unique for the utilitarian.
As I pondered this, I realized that in the age of intellectual achievement, this seems to be true more and more. Our houses or apartments look them same. Our appliances all look almost the same, with only features differentiating one from the other. Any computer looks like any other and smartphones compete only in how big their screen can be.
And more and more, what we produce is ephemeral. The appliances and cars with planned obsolescence. The computer programs and TV shows that are replaced in popularity on an almost annual basis. The things we buy, use, dispose of, and promptly forgot that we owned.
Maybe this is the natural progression of technology, that as we move through what we can do and achiever it becomes more and more amazing, yet more and more passing. We moved from stone and wood to metal and leather and steel and concrete and computers. At every step something more amazing, yet each thing seeming to pass more quickly into the ether. We view ruins that were built 2000 years ago; cities from the gold and silver rushes of 200 years ago weather away and vanish.
As the homogenization of the uniqueness of items continues to dwindle and the inevitable move to own and use less and less continues, we will find ourselves in an age where the original, the lasting, the hand made and hand built and distinctive will find more and more value - not just because it has aesthetic or historical value but because it remains distinctive and memorable in a world which no longer generates its memories in things it built but in something far less lasting - the feelings and memories of an individual, which will never outlive them. We are exchanging the record for our being in the physical world for a mental record which we can only record in things that, all too often, pass away in the blink of an eye.
Once upon a time, cars were built that were distinctive and unique. No-one ever mistook a 1956 Thunderbird or 1966 Mustang or a Datsun 280Z for any other kind of car. Even today, these cars remain recognizable - and valuable.
However, a great deal of cars are built today will not have the same lasting power. Most of them merge into one another, a flow of curves and body types to reduce drag, increase gas mileage, and go farther. And to a great extent, they all look almost exactly the same.
In other words, we have exchanged the unique for the utilitarian.
As I pondered this, I realized that in the age of intellectual achievement, this seems to be true more and more. Our houses or apartments look them same. Our appliances all look almost the same, with only features differentiating one from the other. Any computer looks like any other and smartphones compete only in how big their screen can be.
And more and more, what we produce is ephemeral. The appliances and cars with planned obsolescence. The computer programs and TV shows that are replaced in popularity on an almost annual basis. The things we buy, use, dispose of, and promptly forgot that we owned.
Maybe this is the natural progression of technology, that as we move through what we can do and achiever it becomes more and more amazing, yet more and more passing. We moved from stone and wood to metal and leather and steel and concrete and computers. At every step something more amazing, yet each thing seeming to pass more quickly into the ether. We view ruins that were built 2000 years ago; cities from the gold and silver rushes of 200 years ago weather away and vanish.
As the homogenization of the uniqueness of items continues to dwindle and the inevitable move to own and use less and less continues, we will find ourselves in an age where the original, the lasting, the hand made and hand built and distinctive will find more and more value - not just because it has aesthetic or historical value but because it remains distinctive and memorable in a world which no longer generates its memories in things it built but in something far less lasting - the feelings and memories of an individual, which will never outlive them. We are exchanging the record for our being in the physical world for a mental record which we can only record in things that, all too often, pass away in the blink of an eye.
Monday, March 18, 2019
Slow Driving, No Media
I am a slow driver.
I drive at or below the speed limit on a daily basis - so much so, The Ravishing Mrs. TB reminds me quite a bit to at least "go the speed limit". I at least try to get out of the far left lane, but generally - yes, I am that guy.
Why? Not really sure how it started - that I can recall now, I have never had a speeding ticket. I think it originated somewhere from my seeming irrational fear of always being pulled over - if I am going the speed limit, there is never any danger of that happening. I am perfectly happy to let others speed by me on their way to somewhere as I slowly make my way down the Interstate.
It occurred to me yesterday as I drove that this is what giving up current events and media has been like.
If (like me) you are driving at the speed limit, you inevitably find yourself passed by people going quickly (or much more quickly) on their way to somewhere else. They either whip right by or slowly edge past you, but in the end they leave you behind as they speed over the horizon.
Oddly enough however, I still end up arriving at the same destination they do, if only a little bit later.
That is what being without the media has been like. Yes, I eventually hear of the "goings on" out there in the real world (because of course people talk about it) but I end up waking up at the same time as everyone else. I can perhaps opine on the current event (I am trying not to during Lent, of course!) even as I grasp that I can no more influence or change most of them than I can the weather or the sunset.
The pace of my life - or at least my stress, I guess, has changed as well. I am no longer always in an almost hyper-induced sense of waiting for the next thing to occur (I wish I could make this true for work as well!). I just move forward into my day, knowing that somehow events and commentary are going on all around me and knowing that I will end the day like everyone else around me.
I have to admit this has turned out to be a rather delightful change of pace.
I drive at or below the speed limit on a daily basis - so much so, The Ravishing Mrs. TB reminds me quite a bit to at least "go the speed limit". I at least try to get out of the far left lane, but generally - yes, I am that guy.
Why? Not really sure how it started - that I can recall now, I have never had a speeding ticket. I think it originated somewhere from my seeming irrational fear of always being pulled over - if I am going the speed limit, there is never any danger of that happening. I am perfectly happy to let others speed by me on their way to somewhere as I slowly make my way down the Interstate.
It occurred to me yesterday as I drove that this is what giving up current events and media has been like.
If (like me) you are driving at the speed limit, you inevitably find yourself passed by people going quickly (or much more quickly) on their way to somewhere else. They either whip right by or slowly edge past you, but in the end they leave you behind as they speed over the horizon.
Oddly enough however, I still end up arriving at the same destination they do, if only a little bit later.
That is what being without the media has been like. Yes, I eventually hear of the "goings on" out there in the real world (because of course people talk about it) but I end up waking up at the same time as everyone else. I can perhaps opine on the current event (I am trying not to during Lent, of course!) even as I grasp that I can no more influence or change most of them than I can the weather or the sunset.
The pace of my life - or at least my stress, I guess, has changed as well. I am no longer always in an almost hyper-induced sense of waiting for the next thing to occur (I wish I could make this true for work as well!). I just move forward into my day, knowing that somehow events and commentary are going on all around me and knowing that I will end the day like everyone else around me.
I have to admit this has turned out to be a rather delightful change of pace.
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Keep Me
Keep me in good means,
Keep me in good intent.
Keep me in good estate,
Better than I know to ask,
Better that I know to ask.
Shepherd me this day,
Relieve my distress...
Guard for me my speech,
Strengthen for me my love,
Illumine for me the stream.
- Carmina Gadelica (Alexander Carmichael) from Celtic Devotions (Calvin Miller)
Saturday, March 16, 2019
A Few Words From..A.W. Tozer
"Religion today is not transforming the people - it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level society - it is descending to society's own level and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smiling accepting its surrender."
Friday, March 15, 2019
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
On Not Preaching Holiness
The Western Church (by and large) has lost sight of the Holiness of God.
One of the great favors you can do yourself, if you are a Christian, is to work your way through Jaroslav Pelikan's 5 book study of the The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (I have only made it through Volume 4 but am re-reading the series this year). In reading the books you find that the develop of the doctrine of the church was a bit longer drawn out that we like to believe ( the best known case of this of course, the Trinity, was not formally worked out until the 4th century). You will also find that the Church, like any other human institution, goes through trends based on the society around it.
The trend in the Western Church - or at least the American Western Church - is justice.
Justice has become the defining nature of God. Everything - society, history, current social mores, economy - is viewed through the lens of "The Justice of God" (and by justice, what is meant is equality and righting wrongs). Thus, preaching of God's word becomes an exercise in 1) showing how the people of the Bible were unjust; 2) showing how we currently are unjust; and 3) how we need to make fighting injustice our number one goal.
Now, there is a balance to be kept here. The Bible is rather full of justice - and indeed, it talks about social justice as is suggested (Rights for the sojourner, widow and orphans, caring for the poor - check it, it's all there). At the same time, the Bible is not ONLY about this thing.
We have lost the Holiness of God in this rush to justice.
God is holy - holy meaning not just as we think of it (really religious), but utterly pure and set apart from anything else. He is the ultimate holder of gravitas, the one who is so beyond us in our sin in nature and in being that we wither away in His presence.
God is also very, very explicit about the fact that He is holy - and that He expects us to be as well (Leviticus 11:44 is a fine example: "Be ye holy, for I am Holy says the LORD"). It is as explicitly discussed as any other attribute of God (such as His love or justice, for example). Yet holiness is something that you will scarcely hear preached on these days.
Why? Two reasons, I think. The first is a somewhat crass one: The holiness of God allows us to rail against no-one. We cannot use the word of God as a weapon of God to bring the change we think needs to be in the world, because in that sense holiness has very little to do with this world or our agendas.
The second reason is that the Holiness of God imparts guilt and requires action.
By demonstrating and saying that God is holy, we are saying that we are sinners. And sinning makes us feel bad (as it should, by the way). But feeling bad is not something that a great many churches want to do these days: it drives away people and convinces them that Christianity is "as seen on TV". Better to engage them with words and feelings and movements of the society around them.
And it requires action. It requires us to repent of our sin - even more, it requires us to agree with God on the issues as He sees them and change our view to match His, something which is not popular is a society that sees so much of the Bible as anachronistic and a tool of oppressive morality and domination.
The catch? Without holiness, no-one can see the Lord. Ultimately our ability to see God is predicated upon us accepting the sacrifice of Christ on our behalf for our sin - our unholiness, as it were. And without acknowledging that sin, that unholiness, we cannot be saved from it.
Be careful, Church of the West. Do not exchange your calling to be a holy people of a holy God to be a socially relevant people of a socially relevant God. If we do not right this ship, we will end up becoming a chapter in someone else's book of Christian History, while the church that practices holiness somewhere else takes up the torch and moves forward.
One of the great favors you can do yourself, if you are a Christian, is to work your way through Jaroslav Pelikan's 5 book study of the The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (I have only made it through Volume 4 but am re-reading the series this year). In reading the books you find that the develop of the doctrine of the church was a bit longer drawn out that we like to believe ( the best known case of this of course, the Trinity, was not formally worked out until the 4th century). You will also find that the Church, like any other human institution, goes through trends based on the society around it.
The trend in the Western Church - or at least the American Western Church - is justice.
Justice has become the defining nature of God. Everything - society, history, current social mores, economy - is viewed through the lens of "The Justice of God" (and by justice, what is meant is equality and righting wrongs). Thus, preaching of God's word becomes an exercise in 1) showing how the people of the Bible were unjust; 2) showing how we currently are unjust; and 3) how we need to make fighting injustice our number one goal.
Now, there is a balance to be kept here. The Bible is rather full of justice - and indeed, it talks about social justice as is suggested (Rights for the sojourner, widow and orphans, caring for the poor - check it, it's all there). At the same time, the Bible is not ONLY about this thing.
We have lost the Holiness of God in this rush to justice.
God is holy - holy meaning not just as we think of it (really religious), but utterly pure and set apart from anything else. He is the ultimate holder of gravitas, the one who is so beyond us in our sin in nature and in being that we wither away in His presence.
God is also very, very explicit about the fact that He is holy - and that He expects us to be as well (Leviticus 11:44 is a fine example: "Be ye holy, for I am Holy says the LORD"). It is as explicitly discussed as any other attribute of God (such as His love or justice, for example). Yet holiness is something that you will scarcely hear preached on these days.
Why? Two reasons, I think. The first is a somewhat crass one: The holiness of God allows us to rail against no-one. We cannot use the word of God as a weapon of God to bring the change we think needs to be in the world, because in that sense holiness has very little to do with this world or our agendas.
The second reason is that the Holiness of God imparts guilt and requires action.
By demonstrating and saying that God is holy, we are saying that we are sinners. And sinning makes us feel bad (as it should, by the way). But feeling bad is not something that a great many churches want to do these days: it drives away people and convinces them that Christianity is "as seen on TV". Better to engage them with words and feelings and movements of the society around them.
And it requires action. It requires us to repent of our sin - even more, it requires us to agree with God on the issues as He sees them and change our view to match His, something which is not popular is a society that sees so much of the Bible as anachronistic and a tool of oppressive morality and domination.
The catch? Without holiness, no-one can see the Lord. Ultimately our ability to see God is predicated upon us accepting the sacrifice of Christ on our behalf for our sin - our unholiness, as it were. And without acknowledging that sin, that unholiness, we cannot be saved from it.
Be careful, Church of the West. Do not exchange your calling to be a holy people of a holy God to be a socially relevant people of a socially relevant God. If we do not right this ship, we will end up becoming a chapter in someone else's book of Christian History, while the church that practices holiness somewhere else takes up the torch and moves forward.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Sow True Seeds Fan for Life
So when I was planting on Sunday I opened one seed packet and found this:
$10 off? And a thing called an action Golden Ticket? I am a fan for life.
$10 off? And a thing called an action Golden Ticket? I am a fan for life.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Garden 2019 I
Today I planted.
I went nuts. I planted two kinds of onions, four kinds of beans, 2 kinds of peppers, and wheat, barley, and rye. I have no idea if any of them will grow.
That is okay, of course. There is nothing wrong with trying.
The soil was remarkably friable. The rabbit droppings and composed wood pellets are working out well. I just need more of them (if necessary, I can "borrow" some from the rabbit shelter).
That is it. We are going full bore this year. NewMantra: Garden or Die.
I went nuts. I planted two kinds of onions, four kinds of beans, 2 kinds of peppers, and wheat, barley, and rye. I have no idea if any of them will grow.
That is okay, of course. There is nothing wrong with trying.
The soil was remarkably friable. The rabbit droppings and composed wood pellets are working out well. I just need more of them (if necessary, I can "borrow" some from the rabbit shelter).
That is it. We are going full bore this year. NewMantra: Garden or Die.
Sunday, March 10, 2019
This Night And Every Night
"God shield the house, the fire, the kine,
Every one who dwells herein to-night.
Shield myself and my beloved group,
Preserve us from foes this night,
For the sake of the Son of the Mary Mother,
In this place, and in every place wherein they dwell to-night,
On this night and on every night,
This night and every night."
- Carmina Gadelica (Alexander Carmichael) from Celtic Devotions (Calvin Miller)
Saturday, March 09, 2019
A Few Word From...Masanobu Fukuoka
"I tell the young people up in my orchard again and again not to try to imitate me, and it really angers me if there is someone who does not try to take this advice to heart. I ask, instead, that they simply live in nature and apply themselves to their daily work. No, there is nothing special about me, but what I have glimpsed is vastly important."
"An object seen in isolation from the whole is not the real thing."
"I probably know more about what can go wrong growing agricultural crops than anyone else in Japan."
"You might say that, rather than growing citrus and vegetables up here, I have been helping to restore the fertility of the soil."
"Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create."
"When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do."
"If natural food is to become widely popular, it must available locally at a reasonable price."
"The world used to be simple. You merely notice in passing that you got wet by brushing against the drops of dew while meandering through the meadow. But from the time people undertook to explain this one drop of dew scientifically, they trapped themselves in the endless hell of the intellect."
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation of human beings."
- The One-Straw Revolution
"An object seen in isolation from the whole is not the real thing."
"I probably know more about what can go wrong growing agricultural crops than anyone else in Japan."
"You might say that, rather than growing citrus and vegetables up here, I have been helping to restore the fertility of the soil."
"Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create."
"When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do."
"If natural food is to become widely popular, it must available locally at a reasonable price."
"The world used to be simple. You merely notice in passing that you got wet by brushing against the drops of dew while meandering through the meadow. But from the time people undertook to explain this one drop of dew scientifically, they trapped themselves in the endless hell of the intellect."
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation of human beings."
- The One-Straw Revolution
Friday, March 08, 2019
People Who Challenge And Inspire
I post this because I had this in high school, lost in it college, and then spent a great deal of time trying to re-find such people - but when I found them again, everything changed for the better.
Thursday, March 07, 2019
Lent 2019
The season of Lent is upon us.
In past years I have "given up" such things as sugar or alcohol. They make for an excellent initial step of self discipline but I have come to understand (at least for myself) that physical deprivation of things is not what I need to be working on in the season. It has varied over the years since I discovered this fact, ranging from behaviors I needed to give up to behaviors that I needed to adopt.
This Lent?
1) Media - I am completely shutting myself off from current events and really media of any kind. My interest - or angst - about current world events in no wise actually changes them. Instead, I need to fill the time with mediation or God's Word.
2) Social Media - I have already been experimenting with this more and more. For now, my goal is to cut down my FaceTome time to twice a week (yes, there are still some reasons to get on there - some of my social groups and activities only post on there at this point). Outside of a brief check of Instagram to see if Na Clann have posted anything, I will effectively be InterWeb silent.
I can always read or go practice more Iai.
3) Music - This one is kind o the most interesting of all to me- for Lent, I will abstain from anything other than Classical Music or Instrumental. Nothing particularly driving this other than just to see what, if any, impact it has on my moods and my life.
So, as I look at this, I see a theme of inner and outer silence. Surely there is a theme here somewhere.
Do you practice Lent? And if so, what do you do?
In past years I have "given up" such things as sugar or alcohol. They make for an excellent initial step of self discipline but I have come to understand (at least for myself) that physical deprivation of things is not what I need to be working on in the season. It has varied over the years since I discovered this fact, ranging from behaviors I needed to give up to behaviors that I needed to adopt.
This Lent?
1) Media - I am completely shutting myself off from current events and really media of any kind. My interest - or angst - about current world events in no wise actually changes them. Instead, I need to fill the time with mediation or God's Word.
2) Social Media - I have already been experimenting with this more and more. For now, my goal is to cut down my FaceTome time to twice a week (yes, there are still some reasons to get on there - some of my social groups and activities only post on there at this point). Outside of a brief check of Instagram to see if Na Clann have posted anything, I will effectively be InterWeb silent.
I can always read or go practice more Iai.
3) Music - This one is kind o the most interesting of all to me- for Lent, I will abstain from anything other than Classical Music or Instrumental. Nothing particularly driving this other than just to see what, if any, impact it has on my moods and my life.
So, as I look at this, I see a theme of inner and outer silence. Surely there is a theme here somewhere.
Do you practice Lent? And if so, what do you do?
Wednesday, March 06, 2019
Serenity
One of the feelings I have noticed over the month or so since I have returned from Japan is, occasionally, a sense of serenity.
It is hard to grasp, this serenity. If I think too much about it, it escapes my grasp. If I try to make it come to me when I think I need it most it eludes my flailing about. But if I am patient - if I simply wait for it to come - it comes.
I am not really sure where it is coming from - if it "The Peace of God which passes all understanding" (which it very well could be) it seems, well, less supernatural than I would have expected (Not sure what I anticipated, really. Just something more, you know, Thunder and Lightning and Wheels with Eyes). If it is the result of making a decision and being comfortable with a path, that could be true - except that I am not sure what path I have chosen ( I would be very surprised to find that settling my mind that Iai is the path forward is as life changing a decision as this seems to indicate).
But even to question where or why this serenity has come seems to undermine the whole concept of it. In life, at least most modern life, people seem very eager to run hither and yon seeking "peace" by being incredibly active and frenetic and perhaps mistaking serenity for exhaustion. Or if they have it for a moment, trying to discover what caused it so they can go back to that same well again and again.
It does not really seem to work that way, however.
So for now, I take simple comfort in the fact that it is there. If it is of God, then it will grow all the more. If it is a decision that I have made (perhaps unaware), then it will manifest itself in time. In either event, the true point of it is to be serene, not necessarily to question how it has come.
It is hard to grasp, this serenity. If I think too much about it, it escapes my grasp. If I try to make it come to me when I think I need it most it eludes my flailing about. But if I am patient - if I simply wait for it to come - it comes.
I am not really sure where it is coming from - if it "The Peace of God which passes all understanding" (which it very well could be) it seems, well, less supernatural than I would have expected (Not sure what I anticipated, really. Just something more, you know, Thunder and Lightning and Wheels with Eyes). If it is the result of making a decision and being comfortable with a path, that could be true - except that I am not sure what path I have chosen ( I would be very surprised to find that settling my mind that Iai is the path forward is as life changing a decision as this seems to indicate).
But even to question where or why this serenity has come seems to undermine the whole concept of it. In life, at least most modern life, people seem very eager to run hither and yon seeking "peace" by being incredibly active and frenetic and perhaps mistaking serenity for exhaustion. Or if they have it for a moment, trying to discover what caused it so they can go back to that same well again and again.
It does not really seem to work that way, however.
So for now, I take simple comfort in the fact that it is there. If it is of God, then it will grow all the more. If it is a decision that I have made (perhaps unaware), then it will manifest itself in time. In either event, the true point of it is to be serene, not necessarily to question how it has come.
Tuesday, March 05, 2019
Waiting For A Big Change
Ever get the feeling that there is a big change ahead?
You can never really point to it. There is nothing in your life at the time that makes you say "Hey, sharp 90 degree turn up ahead" - nor is there any signs whereby you can point out the same to the others in your life.
But the feeling is there. You go to sleep with it. You wake up with it. It haunts the fringes of your day as you go about it.
Oddly enough, you begin to find yourself actively looking for signs of the change - which can be difficult, of course, when you do not know what kind of thing the change is supposed to be. But you keep looking for hints, signs - good heavens, flocks of birds flying overhead or your lunch mysteriously forming itself into a symbol in its container.
It would be great to know what the change is, of course - after all, it helps with planning - but for now I am simply trying to live in the moment of anticipating the change, something I have not always done as well as I should have.
But change is coming. I need only wait and watching.
You can never really point to it. There is nothing in your life at the time that makes you say "Hey, sharp 90 degree turn up ahead" - nor is there any signs whereby you can point out the same to the others in your life.
But the feeling is there. You go to sleep with it. You wake up with it. It haunts the fringes of your day as you go about it.
Oddly enough, you begin to find yourself actively looking for signs of the change - which can be difficult, of course, when you do not know what kind of thing the change is supposed to be. But you keep looking for hints, signs - good heavens, flocks of birds flying overhead or your lunch mysteriously forming itself into a symbol in its container.
It would be great to know what the change is, of course - after all, it helps with planning - but for now I am simply trying to live in the moment of anticipating the change, something I have not always done as well as I should have.
But change is coming. I need only wait and watching.
Monday, March 04, 2019
Sow True: A Review
Regrettably, my previous seed supplier went out of business (rather mysteriously and all of a sudden). Leigh at Five Acres and a Dream suggested a couple of sites. I went to one of her suggestion, Sow True Seed, and made a purchase.
Happily not too long later, I received a package:
Inside, a treasure trove of spring excitement:
Some high class glossy advertisements: one for an upcoming book on Okra (which, strangely, I am now interested in) and one for sweet potato slips (who knows?):
Three of the seed packets had quality looking hand drawings on them:
And two were just plain (mostly likely seasonal seeds):
They also sent along two packets for collecting seeds. Yes, I know that I can just as well use plastic bags or envelopes (I often do), but it was still a nice touch:
I have still have yet to plant, of course - but my initial impressions are very good. A well thought presentation and marketing of the product.
Happily not too long later, I received a package:
Inside, a treasure trove of spring excitement:
Some high class glossy advertisements: one for an upcoming book on Okra (which, strangely, I am now interested in) and one for sweet potato slips (who knows?):
Three of the seed packets had quality looking hand drawings on them:
And two were just plain (mostly likely seasonal seeds):
They also sent along two packets for collecting seeds. Yes, I know that I can just as well use plastic bags or envelopes (I often do), but it was still a nice touch:
I have still have yet to plant, of course - but my initial impressions are very good. A well thought presentation and marketing of the product.
Sunday, March 03, 2019
Each Thing
Each thing I have received, from Thee it came.
Each thing for which I hope, from Thy love it will come.
Each thing I enjoy, it is of Thy bounty.
Each Thing I ask, comes of Thy disposing.
- - Carmina Gadelica (Alexander Carmichael) from Celtic Devotions (Calvin Miller)
Saturday, March 02, 2019
Budapest
Today's posting - for no other reason than I like and it strikes me as delightful - is George Ezra's song Budapest. Click and enjoy.
Friday, March 01, 2019
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