Category: Readiness

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Detained on False Charges

I had a dream last night that I was being held in a foreign land on false charges.

I was innocent, and the person I was supposed to have wronged was even saying it wasn't true.  Nonetheless, I could not move on until the trial was over, which was being done “community style”.  The whole village turned up to vote on my innocence or guilt, and they would play the role of judge.  My ally, who was testifying on my behalf got distracted and started talking about things unrelated to my case,  something important to him, that was a total distraction and delay of the case at hand.  This incensed me, and I exclaimed aloud in protest.  He was well-meaning, just distracted.  It looked like it would not be resolved quickly, as the day was ending and the community would have to be assembled again to hear more and decide my fate. Continue reading “Detained on False Charges”

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Ready or Not

The Story of the Virgins

God's kingdom is like ten young virgins who took oil lamps and went out to greet the bridegroom. Five were silly and five were smart. The silly virgins took lamps, but no extra oil. The smart virgins took jars of oil to feed their lamps. The bridegroom didn't show up when they expected him, and they all fell asleep. In the middle of the night someone yelled out, ‘He's here! The bridegroom's here! Go out and greet him!' Continue reading “Ready or Not”

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Into Oblivion

This title came to me as I contemplated recent occurrences, things I have seen and heard.  What does “into oblivion” mean?  “I am going to pound you into oblivion!”  The idea here is you are going to be completely pounded, completely destroyed, by the pounding that is about to happen.  “He's oblivious….”  In oblivion, oblivious, not aware of what is going on around you.  Fiddling while Rome burns, the old tale of Nero's madness, is that he was oblivious to important and emergent conditions while occupied with trivia.  You have heard this used, and perhaps used it yourself of someone who seemed hopelessly out of touch.

So what brings this to mind? Continue reading “Into Oblivion”

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Where Is All This Going?

I don't think I would be accused of being too lenient….   I could be wrong.  Who knows how others see you?  It's hard to get an outside perspective when you live inside your own head.  I like challenges.  Sometimes too much. I want to be intense, extreme, devout.  I don't care if I am known for being that, but I want it to be real.  Often I observe others who want to be known as extreme, because it's cool, or hip, or something.  Most of what I have seen in these examples is false.   Continue reading “Where Is All This Going?”