Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
The elderly man and I stood just outside the fog line on the busy-at-that-time two-lane highway. The strip of pavement between the fog line and the gravel is narrow at that point. The gravel shoulder is itself narrow before sloping down into the shallow, weedy ditch.
We have no crosswalk. We have no Ped Xing sign. We have no caution sign of any sort. We have no diminished speed zone. We have no Read it all
I went on my early morning half-mile-each-way walk. (I like to walk.)
The temperature was a tad nippy, the precipitation was barely drippy, the air currents were somewhat whippy, and I felt borderline zippy.
As I walked, I talked. In my head. With certain subjects on the agenda. Read it all
I used to make computer wallpaper using (generally-)scenic photography and personalized Psalms (and other Scripture verses).
I wanted to have a day’s outstanding verse fragment before me all day.
Alas, I still forgot to remember and focus on those Scriptures. 🙁
So this really resonates in my heart: Read it all
Today was a rough day.
I forgot to practice thankfulness.
Which didn’t help at all.
For a Christian, a rough day is a bad reason to forget to be grateful. Read it all
Imagine two people walking together.
Down the aisle, across an isle, along the road, over a bridge — the where is of no particular consequence. (Or maybe it is; what do you think?)
Anyway, just imagine two people walking together.
Like this, for instance: Read it all
Are you bound?
Chains. How effectively they keep prisoners secured. Rattled by hapless captives, their oppressive clanking echoes through history and literature. But the most oppressive chains produce neither clank nor rattle. I have in mind chains such as bitterness, anger, fear, suspicion, self, and habits. Read it all
Maybe I mean noodle-spined. Or pansy-hearted. Or gutless.
On the other hand, perhaps all those adjectives are ill-fitted to the term Christian.
Whatever the case, I call to your attention the matter of risk-taking disciples of Jesus: Read it all