This was a pretty lean writing week.  I started a new job, but that's not what kept me from posting.  In addition to the new job I had a bunch of stuff to do to prepare for a business trip and this demanded about five or six hours of my time each night after work.  As soon as that stuff was done I had to start packing.  Actually I'm packing and cleaning while writing this.  I leave on Monday and will be gone for three to four weeks.  I think I'll still be able to post while I'm away, but If you see nothing here you know I'm unplugged from the matrix.

Below is the only thing I posted this week.  Its about worrying.

We worry about our worry, then about our worrying

The week is half complete and everything is trucking along as famously as ever.  Civilization continues along the  same road it has travelled for at least 5,000 years.  People are born and die; they are saved and murdered; wars end and wars begin; we laugh and we cry; we encourage and we defame.  What a people we are!  And yet every day is worth living even if we have trouble seeing its worth.  Jesus taught us that we should not worry just trust God to provide for us just as he provides for the birds and for the flowers.  After all we are much more important to Him than birds or flowers. (Matt 6:25-27, Luke 12:23-25).  That is easier said than done.  Is it possible to eliminate worry?  I doubt it.  Furthermore, I think anybody who says you can is at best a charlatan and at worst a hypocrite.  I think, in the midst of worry, that thinking of the compassion Christ modeled to us and of his triumphant return (when humanity finally goes too far) can be encouraging and comforting.

originally posted april 8, 2009