seeing stars
If you struggle to ‘shoot the breeze,’ move to Alberta; it’s an amazing province. We’re nearing December and it is as warm as a summer day, and has been for the week. I get paid to remove snow. Let’s just say the cash is as elusive as the white stuff.
I went to Starbucks with my mom today, one of the first times we’ve sat down for a chat since I returned to North America. It was nice. A lady, entering the store, caught her heel on the sidewalk and fell face first with full momentum into the glass door. Bizarre. She was okay, but understandably embarrassed. She and a hundred other birds, no doubt, buzz around with the same daze, only she could medicate with caffeine.
I’ve been reading the biography of G. Campbell Morgan, a man known as one of the most powerful teachers of the Bible in the twentieth century, only, I hadn’t heard of him until last week. Two of his books, The Westminster Pulpit, a collection of his sermons when he was ministering in England at Westminster Abbey, and his The Gospel According to John, are on my Christmas wish list.
Reading about his life has refreshed my desire to be used by God in this world, and to, in some capacity, teach the Bible. I’m reminded this week of words from a friend in Kona, words from one of the most beautiful people I know. She said, “Andrew, the word authority is important for you to understand; learn about it.” I have not known where to start. Morgan believed that authority came from knowing and living the truth; words that impact me and reiterate another beautiful voice who, when I was in Malaysia, told me that in life, when it comes to legitimacy and authority, “there is no substitute for a life lived with God.”
It is this life I desire, but also find it is this life that is hard to live. Even as I say it, tempted to focus on the strain and my notions of personal failure to succeed at this goal in a way that meets my perfectionistic expectations, I hear a voice. Alsan or Lewis. Maybe, though, it is Lucy’s. Further up and further in!
Andrew’s Background Tunes
Keane, Hopes and Fears
I went to Starbucks with my mom today, one of the first times we’ve sat down for a chat since I returned to North America. It was nice. A lady, entering the store, caught her heel on the sidewalk and fell face first with full momentum into the glass door. Bizarre. She was okay, but understandably embarrassed. She and a hundred other birds, no doubt, buzz around with the same daze, only she could medicate with caffeine.
I’ve been reading the biography of G. Campbell Morgan, a man known as one of the most powerful teachers of the Bible in the twentieth century, only, I hadn’t heard of him until last week. Two of his books, The Westminster Pulpit, a collection of his sermons when he was ministering in England at Westminster Abbey, and his The Gospel According to John, are on my Christmas wish list.
Reading about his life has refreshed my desire to be used by God in this world, and to, in some capacity, teach the Bible. I’m reminded this week of words from a friend in Kona, words from one of the most beautiful people I know. She said, “Andrew, the word authority is important for you to understand; learn about it.” I have not known where to start. Morgan believed that authority came from knowing and living the truth; words that impact me and reiterate another beautiful voice who, when I was in Malaysia, told me that in life, when it comes to legitimacy and authority, “there is no substitute for a life lived with God.”
It is this life I desire, but also find it is this life that is hard to live. Even as I say it, tempted to focus on the strain and my notions of personal failure to succeed at this goal in a way that meets my perfectionistic expectations, I hear a voice. Alsan or Lewis. Maybe, though, it is Lucy’s. Further up and further in!
Andrew’s Background Tunes
Keane, Hopes and Fears