I was having a conversation with a very dear and good friend. We were talking about marriage. The friend brought up compromise. After I got my breathe back I was all up for writing about it, but to ensure I wasn’t duplicating, I checked to see if I’d written about it before. I had. Click […]
Read More A Reminder About Compromise and CollaboroationI’m not what I want to be, but thank God I’m not what I used to be. I have heard that line and variations of it for quite some time now. It can get so familiar that it loses its significance and can be somewhat cliche. Thankfully every now and then things happen to actually […]
Read More The Gospel: What Has Changed and What Is Changing?God sucker punched me again. I was thinking about Christmas and how we miss the opportunity to share Christ at Christmas for one reason or other. Now I don’t celebrate Christmas for various reasons and have gone through a number of developments in my stance on the issue. It leaves me still not celebrating it, […]
Read More All Bitterness ErasedThere is comfort in the simple things. Keeping things simple means, so the thinking goes, that we can address things just as simply. So all I want is something to eat. So as long as it’s edible and available, I eat and my hunger is satisfied. Simple. I do believe aspects of the human experience […]
Read More Reflecting On The Complexity Of HumanityIt is rather intriguing how narrow my worldview can be. I have a tendency to be fairly insular and have in the past considered myself a bit of an introvert. My recollection of childhood is one where I was familiar with the floors of many places, because I didn’t really have the confidence to look […]
Read More Embracing God’s Gifts In All Its GuisesConfession time. The main overseer of the denomination in which I was brought up passed away recently. Last night I discovered that Larry Hagman, the man who was J.R. also passed away. The death of Hagman had a bigger impact on me than the death of the overseer. Yes, I accept what a sad indictment […]
Read More Knowing You and Missing YouOne of the reasons why I love my wife is because we have conversations that can lead to blog entries. There are other reasons – she is beautiful after all – but this is a good reason for the purposes of this entry. We spoke of a hypothetical situation. Here is the situation. Ron and […]
Read More When Do You Blow The Whistle?I wrote an email to a friend today. Back in the day I was encouraged to write letters. It was the time when there was this thing called penpals where you could befriend people from different countries by the power of the letter. I remember starting that. I remember not continuing it after long, because […]
Read More Bringing Me To TearsDon’t get me wrong. I love belonging. I don’t often feel I belong. Most of the time I feel a lot of a misfit. Whether because of me gender (true story, folks), me ethnicity (maybe it is cos I is black), me deep approach to living and other internal foibles it has always been difficult […]
Read More QOI: Which Church Do You Go To?For what feels like years, part of the world of television advertising has been dominated by the GoCompare campaign. First you had the singing tenor dude doing his thing in various settings and then the company really latched onto the public sentiment by sending him up as a target figure for the millions who were […]
Read More Go Compare? I Don’t Think So
