In the twenty some odd years of working in construction, with and for my father, I heard him asked by at least two dozen different customers ” How do you fix a bad foundation?” They usually would enumerate the various methods ” foundation repair ” companies advertised; mud jacking, I-beams driven down to bedrock, wrapping tension […]
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Christmas Day
I think it’s instructive to remember that when Christ was born in Bethlehem, Judea, the official announcement by Heaven that the greatest event in human history, up to that time, had occurred, was given in a dark field, outside of the cities and towns, to a handful of anonymous shepherds.
While emperors planned, and powerful men and women spun designs for conquest and acquisition; the event that would shape the destiny of all mankind, that would change the face of the entire earth; that would establish forever the point from which time itself would be measured, had played itself out in a forgotten corner of a minor province. And no-one knew except a handful of shepherds.
I’m not certain where shepherds stood on the social scale of Judea, I suspect they were closer to the bottom than the top. But for one glorious night, in an empty field, while all the world slept, they alone knew.
Angels in the Dark
Dec 20
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No one knows what angels look like. There are a wealth of popular images, in movies ,books, and on television. There are songs, plays and paintings, but no one really knows. Why? Because angels usually come in the dark. Why? Because that’s where the people who need them the most usually are. In the dark. In December […]
The Birds and the Bees
Dec 18
It seems that the young people in our world have lost the wisdom , or never acquired it , that their mothers and fathers were blessed to have received from their elders , or by bouncing their face off of a brick wall untill the light turned on. I’m thinking in particular of the complex and perilous task of communicating […]
Democrat & Republican
Dec 10
Democrats believe that you should give a man a fish and thereby feed him for a day. This is an all together good and virtuous thing to do. Republicans believe that if you teach a man to fish, it won’t be long before he needs a Bass Boat and motor, and a trailer […]
Cut the Rope
Dec 9
The most jarring, visceral, scene in a movie I have ever seen, is the first fifteen minutes of the film “Vertical Limit”. A father, son, and daughter are climbing guides leading two customers up one of the tall spires in Monument Valley. The clients are in front, the father next followed by the son then the […]
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