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“A LIVING EXCLAMATION POINT”
Generally, my journal is just for me. However, sometimes I think that you might enjoy (and benefit from) looking over my shoulder. Another possibility is that I am just being lazy, and don’t want to write something else for my blog post. However, I don’t like that interpretation, so I simply regard it as untrue, and throw it out.
So, here you go, and I hope that you enjoy it.
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Another good day yesterday! I love you, LORD! Help me to love you more in this day. Help me to love you with this day!
Yesterday, I moved a good deal of stuff back upstairs, so that my wife could have the downstairs desk. The desk upstairs has a lot more room. In fact, the entire room is larger. It feels good to be back up here, though my wife is concerned with me being “so far away from” her. Isn’t that sweet! I love that girl so much!
I’ve got an awful lot of exclamation points in the above paragraphs, but then, I’m an exclamation point kind of guy. (Should I have finished the preceding sentence with an exclamation point?)
I remember a lady from many years ago, the wife of the president of a seminary I attended back in the 1980’s, who was always so upbeat and enthusiastic. Everybody hated her. “Nobody can be that happy and bubbly all the time,” some said. Many of the students thought she was simply a fake.
Well, maybe not everybody hated her. In fact, I rather liked her. Perhaps that was because I was (and am) a little like her.
Of course, I’m a morning person, so I tend to rain exclamation points early in the morning. Later in the day, they tend to dry up, and become periods or commas or question marks. Sometimes they even become the . . . s of unfinished sentences. Oh well . . .
One of the problems I had when I was writing my Ph.D. dissertation was that I kept using exclamation marks. My very patient advisors kept reminding me that I shouldn’t do that. When I had eliminated all the exclamations, I was awarded the Ph.D. Apparently, Ph.D. candidates are not allowed to be enthusiastic or emphatic.
But perhaps God loves my exclamation points, and all of my punctuation marks, even my questions and my dot-dot-dots. The God who made all things understands all the punctuation marks of all God’s creatures—including the creatures that are you and me.
DOWN TO EARTH BELIEVER
- DTEB, “Getting Christ and Ourselves Back in Focus” November 11, 2024“Col. 3:1 ¶ If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Col. 3:2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. Col. 3:3 For you have died, and your life is hidden […]
- “Search Me!” October 27, 2024“Psa. 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!” (Psalm 139:23-24, English Standard Version) I am participating in a Bible study, and this is a prayer […]
- “Christian Speech” October 26, 2024“Eph. 4:29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” Foulkes, in his excellent commentary on the Book of Ephesians, writes the following, which I quote at some length: “29. Now the […]
- “God is in the Details” October 11, 2024“The devil is in the details.” (A general saying, often quoted by lawyers, reporters, and negotiators.) “God is in the details.” (Me, almost certainly not original.) “Luke 12:7 Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.” (Jesus) God does not micromanage, but God […]
- “Grandma’s Pump” October 8, 2024When I was a little critter, I would stay at my grandma’s house for a night or two sometimes. I liked this for a lot for many reasons. One thing I liked about staying with her was that Grandma’s house was much more technologically advanced than ours was. For one thing, she had indoor water—sort […]
- “Wearing the #14 Wrong-Side-Out” October 5, 2024Pete Rose, #14, is dead. Many of the old guys with whom I play softball watched him play and appreciated him greatly. I do as well. He was one of the greatest players who ever played the game. Yes, he admitted (eventually) to betting on baseball. But many of us still regard him as one […]
- “Passing Along the Love (and a Link)” October 4, 2024Several years ago, a friend of mine put me onto a daily meditation by Richard Rohr and friends. I don’t read them all the time, but I probably should. They are good! I thought that today’s writing was especially good, and I also figured that this would be a good way to post something. I […]
- “Witnessing Versus Being Witnesses” September 19, 2024“Acts 1:1 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, Acts 1:2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. Acts 1:3 He presented himself alive to them after […]
- “A Bathroom Prayer for Hurting Hands” September 11, 2024A week ago Sunday, my hands were hurting so badly at church that I went to the bathroom to run hot water over my hands. Arthritis perhaps, or carpal tunnel, or general orneriness—I don’t know why my hands hurt, but they do. They have for years. So, while I was running hot water over my […]
- “Waiting and Seeking” September 10, 2024“Lam. 3:19 ¶ Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! Lam. 3:20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. Lam. 3:21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: Lam. 3:22 ¶ The steadfast love of the LORD […]
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