Eww

I stepped on a dead squirrel today. It was really strange and I wasn't quite sure how to react. I was wearing flip flops so I'm sure I have some bizarre disease and I'll be completely deranged in a couple of days time...sigh, oh well. Anhoo, that was pretty much the highlight of my day. I'm so pathetic.
Actually there was something else...but we won't discuss that now. :)
I should go get my rabies shot.

Civilized Numb

I went to a church this morning where the preacher was talking about Jonah. He pointed out that a man in the stomach of a fish isn't so hard to believe for someone who also believes Jesus rose from the dead. Twice he said something along these lines and twice I looked and saw only blank faces in the congregation.
Are we as Christians really at the point where the single most important (and amazing...and perhaps unbelievable) event in history no longer moves us? It seems so many of us have been churched for so long that the resurrection has become just another piece of history--just another story--that has no affect on our emotions. Sure, the amazement of Jesus' life brought us to Him in the first place, but we've lost the wonder of such power.
He died--was murdered. And yet He walked out of His grave. Who knows, maybe our loss of wonder is just another side effect of civilization.

Let Freedom Ring

My chains are gone. I am free from the things that keep me from You. I am free from the lonliness and depression, free from all that hinders me from being extraordinary--free from mediocrity. I am free because of You, because of Your truly amazing grace.

Thank You Capt'n Obvious

from The Round of the Clock

by Frederick B. Needham

"One!" strikes the clock in the belfry tower,

Which but sixty minutes ago

Sounded twelve for the midnight hour.