Break A Nose

Many Christians enjoy a daily devotional reading of one kind or another, a personal discipline of some sort. Because of our custom of “giving up something for Lent,” this is an apt season to get into such a habit; that is to say, giving up time that otherwise would have gone to something else or even to nothing. Mine is encouraged by fascination with electronics, so lifting the MacBook lid opens possibilities every morning.
One, Days of Praise, appeals to me unfailingly, because the writer is bright and educated, and because coming from The Institute for Creation Research, what he says is often 180 out from me and stirs the mind. How dull life would be if lived mentally unchallenged. Which makes it seem dimwitted, for example, to watch only a television news channel that propounds only one’s own views. 
This morning’s meditation, “Statement of Christ’s Purpose,” says Jesus came to preach the kingdom of God, to call sinners to repentance, to give his life a ransom for many, to teach and send forth disciples; and goes on to say that each of us should have a clearly defined purpose. Each will vary, differ, according to gifts and talents, but the end of each should be the same as Christ’s own purposes.
Which has me contemplating my own purposes today, finishing prep for Tuesday Morning Bible Seminar, reading another ancient noncanonical gospel (instantly available on line that twenty years ago would have been too much trouble to bother), being brought up short by a verse from Psalm 2 that made its way into some gospels canonical and other. 
And again with delight reading articles from Michigan Today that arrives faithfully by email monthly. Among others this morning
  • When continents collide (yep, still evolving)
  • Pregnant primates miscarry when new male enters group (no comment, might be considered sexist) 
  • Belief in global warming rebounds after period of decline (Belief?! Only in America do folks don blindfolds in the name of -- "religion" -- choosing darkness instead of light)

    • Renaissance man - U-M's first black football player, George Jewett, spoke four languages, was valedictorian of his high school, earned a medical degree, and could wriggle through defenders or break a nose when he had to.        
    • Heart-powered pacemaker
    Observe, read, learn, be challenged and astonished, pass it on; break a nose when you have too.
    TW+