moonroof musing

One man's theology has us all hammers while another's has us all nails - actors or the acted upon. I, for one, fancy myself a hammerhead striving to fashion a handle for the God-sized hand.

The Life and Times. . .

I've been drafted to run the power point presentation at tonight's Augusta Care Pregnancy Center fall banquet. When first approached about this task I, of course, said "no, I really shouldn't" and the enlister, of course, saw that I did not speak as one with authority. So the question was asked again in a less interrogative manner and a more imperitive one and so now the city's pro-life faithful and the former attorney general of Kansas will be treated to many moments of awkward anxiety and mumbled summons for persons of competence.

Wouldn't you like to know. . .

I have but one bookcase in my study at the church. It's a good size - probably five or six feet wide and its height reaches the ceiling; but I have more books than it can hold. Tomes are piling up in stacks on the file cabinet, the edges of my desk, and now the floor. Whether to winnow my library or box up and exile the space-taking books to a back room of my manse in Martinez was the question. As I scanned the titles in consideration of all this - I was aghast at the chaff that had settled on my shelves. Winnow it was and tonight I am very much looking forward to toasting some marshmallows over the embers of what's left of my first ever backyard bookburning!

Ours is the depth - His the breadth

I find curious the faith that has me earnestly praying today for the one I so fervently prayed against yesterday. I am captive as always to the One who sees the whole of it. I praise the sovereign God.

From the pen of F.W. Bourdillon

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the whole world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

816 Somerset Place

Engine engine number nine speeding down Chicago line - if the train should jump the tracks - do you want your money back? Y-e-s spells "yes" and you are not it!

Bubblegums bubblegums in a dish - how many bubblegums do you wish? T-h-r-e-e spells "three" and you are not it!

Kick The Can anyone?

How do you measure a candidate?

Our government is really not a democracy. It is, as I first read Francis Schaeffer describe it, an elective autocracy. In congressional or presidential elections, we are not voting on single issues like health care, education, or abortion - we are voting for people. These people will go to Washington as autocrats - beholden to no one. Therefore, it is our responsibility as voters to do our level best to discern what is the character of the candidate - to know the candidate's baseline for truth, his philosophy of governance, and his worldview. These men and women are going to make hundreds of decisions on our behalf, representing us. This being the case, it's absurd then to vote for a candidate who declares that his public opinion is different than his private one - for power is then ceded to pollsters. Candidates should declare for the voter what his convictions are and we may then vote for the one whose worldview best represents our own. But what of these candidates whose only conviction is to suppress their own conscience in the pursuit of faithfully ascertaining what is the majority opinion of their constituency and voting in kind? Enough! I'm particularly weary of these Catholic and Protestant Christian candidates who abhor abortion in their hearts but who claim that duty demands they vote to extend it.

"When statesmen forsake their private conscience for the sake of their public duty, they lead their country by a very short route to chaos." ~ Sir Thomas More