I am desperate to experience the life of impossibility. Yesterday, I stumbled across this quote by Martin Buber in his On Judaism: “Whoever can no longer desire the impossible will be able to achieve nothing more than the all too probable.” ~page 145 Any takers for the “all too probable” lifestyle?
Contrasts
I was watching one of the recurrent themes on America’s Funniest Videos last night — cats doing stupid things. There was a big, fat cat sitting on the kitchen floor; there was a loud noise that startled him and he instantly went from sitting to running. The problem was he couldn’t get any traction on […]
Shir Hash-shirim
Kiss me—full on the mouth! Yes! For your love is better than wine, headier than your aromatic oils. The syllables of your name murmur like a meadow brook. No wonder everyone loves to say your name! Wow! That’s almost embarrassing. Imagine stumbling on two lovers fully consumed with the presence of the other. You’d feel […]
Praise: the real joy bus
Worship is the vehicle that carries you into the heavenly realms. Praise doesn’t do that. It isn’t the end, it is the beginning, the “process” of entering in. One way to describe the difference is to use Palm Sunday when Jesus came to town. Had I been there, before he came, but knowing he was […]
Worship, as in, lost in
Some folks are connoisseurs of fine wine. Some have developed exquisite tastes in fine cuisine. Still others are aficionados of art or music. I’ve discovered that I’m enchanted and enthralled by worship. I don’t mean “going to church,” singing contemporary “worship” songs or any other tinny imitations that are passed off as some sort of […]