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Picasso Tete d'une Femme Lisant (Head of a Woman Reading) rendition

Gustav Klimt, Rendition of Family

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Picasso’s Tete d’une Femme Lisant (Head of a Woman Reading): Rendition in black and white

Gustav Klimt, Rendition of Stoclet Frieze Expectation

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Keeping Up with the Joneses — In Which I Admit to Living Beyond My Means

I understand the importance of living within my financial means. And now that I’m doing Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace, that concept is really being driven home. But when it comes to time and energy, I regularly live beyond my means. Everyday I’m allotted 24 hours. That’s my limit, the extent of my daily budget. But […]

In Which I Surrender

I’m sitting next to him on the sofa, but he might as well be miles away. We’re discussing an issue, and the conversation has reached an impasse. Where do we go from here? It’s not really a good time to talk. Life is pressing. He has an appointment. I have things to do. We can […]

Start at Zero

Zero is where you lose yourself. Zero is where you’re dead. Because you have to be dead before you can be resurrected. I woke up this morning thinking about losing all my joints. Little by little they just stop moving. I imagine myself in the future like a paper doll, or maybe cardboard, because even […]

In Which I Find My Camera Manual

My latest creative endeavor is learning how to use a DSLR camera. I don’t remember what DSLR stands for. All I know is that it’s bigger than a point and click and has a lot more buttons. More importantly, all other things being equal, it somehow takes nicer pictures. Also we happen to have one […]

Detours

Have you ever known God to walk a straight line? Straight line — the shortest distance between two points. What about the time Jesus sent the disciples ahead of him and they got caught up in a storm? Jesus came to them walking across the water. As soon as he stepped into the boat, they arrived at […]

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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Musing on Genesis 2 On Day 6, God gets his hands dirty. He forms a man out of the dust, gets his face in there and breathes his very own breath into the man’s nostrils. God and man face to face, up close and personal. The earth needs a man to cultivate it, and God […]

Cain & Abel | Part 1: The Sacrifice

A Retelling of Genesis 4 Cain loved the smell of the earth. His father and mother said it was cursed. “Farming was a lot easier back in the day,” his father would say, with that faraway look in his eyes. He said God had given them the job of working the earth, and Cain enjoyed […]

A Time for Everything

Musing on Genesis 1 God could’ve obliterated the darkness, but instead he creates light and separates it from the darkness, allowing dark and light to exist side by side. The light helps us to comprehend the darkness. The light, he says, is “good.” (As opposed to “not good”? Is it possible to be “not good”– […]

We Were Kind of Hoping They’d Just Go Home

A disciple’s look at five loaves and two fish. Luke 9:10-17 Crowds. I see them in my dream. Bodies, faces, sweat and heat. And hands, so many hands, reaching and clutching. Jesus had sent us out with the power to preach and heal. What a privilege. What a responsibility. We’re home now, pressing through yet […]

Dirt and Rest

Musing on Genesis 2 I’m surprised to discover, after all the hoopla of the first five days of creation, that we’re still just looking at dirt. I always pictured God creating this lush green earth, teeming with creatures, and then plunking man down in the middle of it. But apparently, that’s not necessarily how it happened. […]

Abram & Sarai | The Big Idea: Part 2

She did not like the idea of her husband being with another woman, especially not her maid, and she was glad that part was over. Was it her imagination, or was Hagar patronizing her?