Sometimes someone else's words are best Wayne Flynt: A letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions Updated  Jun 21, 6:06 PM ;  Posted  Jun 21, 10:55 AM Wayne Flynt. 246 6.2k shares By  Guest Voices Dear Attorney General Sessions: Hang on to your day job at the Justice Department. I don't believe you have much future as a theologian or Sunday school Bible study writer. I'm not sure whether Huntingdon College required you to take a New Testament course, but Samford University did require it in 1958 when I was a freshman.   Among the most important principles of Biblical interpretation was to avoid quoting Scripture out of context for your own purposes. That is what you did when quoting Romans 13: 1: "Everyone must submit himself to the government authorities for there is no authority except that which God has established." The historical context for that chapter from Paul's most brilliant exposition of th...

My favorite scene in A Christmas Story is no longer the 1937 Oldsmobile Six, but Ralphie beating the hell out of Scut Farkus, beats the alphabet bully alphabet bloody and Scut runs home crying, destroyed.  Up until yesterday my favorite was the Oldsmobile, however except for traumatized children still concentrated the fight seems over for now and there's no call to throw rocks at the sniveling bully as he flees, humiliated, ὁ ἀναγινώσκων νοείτω.  Here's the Oldsmobile headed home with the Christmas tree tied to the top

Because the "share arrow" doesn't show on Joy Thompson's posts, I'll copy & paste as she reports anew on Joseph's progress. This is from yesterday: Joseph went to the gym today impressed the physical therapist, occupational and speech therapy he worked hard. We got to walk to a coffee shop next door with Joseph following written direction ,he did well he stayed on task most of the time but he forgot what he was supposed to get at the coffee shop. John and James left today..prior to them leaving James and I went on a family walk in a nearby park.   After they left Joseph and i sat outside to soak up vitamin D. Looking at moving to shepherd pathways next week more intense outpt therphy since physically he is so much better.

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/06/19/if-your-church-is-silent-this-week-you-should-leave-it/ At least, pulling up the covers about 7:30 PM and shortly asleep, to wake at one-something is not aggravating, but what to do with Time so early and awake alone. While the first cup of black brews, a quick visit to the porch rail to admire bright planets in their plane arcing from east to west - - quick because of the hot wall of Florida Gulf Coast humidity that hits upon sliding the door open. Out, look, dart back inside. Sometimes an octogenarian can actually dart.   To the cozy - - cozy involves a shoulder wrap and a lap blanket because, while it's hot and humid outside, this is the cold spot in 7H - - little room that, wasted as a seldom-used guest bedroom, is now converted to my den. Den, study, and coffee with a slice of moist, heavy dark chocolate cake to end the last night of Spring 2018. Opening laptop to email, Ireland travelogue. Trying to avoid horrifying news of America...

We have both had the sense, as far as I can remember not actually spoken until sitting up in bed sipping coffee at four o'clock this morning, of 7H as a Safe Place, like a retreat,  a religious retreat where one withdraws for a Time and the world turns somewhere distant, unintrusive. The distance being more abstract than physical. Existential maybe, a place where one is in life that other people, even if in the same physical space, are not.  Why am I down this path. The existential bubble burst just over a month ago when life on the outside broke in here, and again Monday a week ago with a flash. In a sense, 7H doesn't seem so Safe anymore. But then, it happened once earlier, May 12, 2015. So I had simply slipped back into the illusion. A Safe Place is a sense then, not a reality, isn't it. Intrusions today - - care plan meeting, TAFB barber shop, thoughts & fears    

Passing 7H at 5:43 AM after several days lingering offshore, Lauritzen Line's beautiful ship Maple Pioneer 590x94 entering port to load wood pellets for Tyne. A busy trade of wood pellets (bio-mass) replacing coal-fired fuel in power plants.  From Anu Garg this morning that I love, A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. -Roger Ebert, film-critic (18 Jun 1942-2013) and I loved Roger Ebert, especially still and always his book Life Itself: A Memoir but God has not been/is not always as unchangeable as we might insist everyone believe, for example Exodus 32:14, "And יְהוָ֑ה repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people." (KJV) God, יְהוָ֑ה Adonai the Lord has in various and sundry times and places proved reasonable, which carries the meaning of being able and willing to consider others' points of view, an adm...

At some point, depending on what one has met or is still encountering in life, one hopes to resume life as it was "before." It never quite happens, does it, and that if only because every encounter is and has been a new "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" in the full sense of Robert Frost, and the encounter itself changes us and our lives ahead, and we cannot go back and take another road. For all that happened beyond our wishing, here in our family,  fully conscious of unthinkable unspeakable other roads, we are thankful to be where we are this Fathers Day morning, even changed as we are and cannot go back. Resuming for me would, does, mean looking at the text for today and, seeing it's not my day to preach, contemplating what to discuss in adult Sunday School. Four great scriptures as always. Y'Vah (pronounce it as you will) is unhappy with Saul, and Samuel is sad about  that but does as directed, anointing David king in Saul's place. Biblically th...