i phone photo of the "Ladera Ranch Valley" taken on my run the other day.

Time

it is more often then not the the time in-between that is hard,
it is the time not quiet here or there that is difficult.
when we are there, we tell ourselves, it will be easy
when we are there, we tell ourselves, i will know what to do.
but it is not easier
the answers are not there and the time has passed.
if we never lean into the time between we will never know what to do when we arrive.

every man is a dragon slayer inside his own mind, but if he does not practice, if he does not live outside his head, there will be no dragon, no battle, just more of the same and a loss of time.

Brilliant !

currently listening to David Wilcox streaming from his website in the "musical medicine" section. i think he is brilliant! i encourage all to check out his website, also brilliant. http://www.davidwilcox.com/index.php?page=cds&category=01--MUSICAL_MEDICINE

finished

just finished book resident aliens, i am now studying the Hebrew alphabet, i slipped out of the sunday night service for a bit last night to catch some of Donald Millers talk, purchased his book on CD and began listening to it last night. as well i have began reading a Great book on preaching by thomas long and now all thoughts are mixing together and my head is spinning with all sorts of good ideas that i can not seem to place together into a coherent thought, But if i Could i am sure that it would be REally Very Great thought indeed.

???

i wonder if i will ever be able to figure this out?

Sh!@#$!

as a parent you deal with a lot of crap, literal and figurative.
today i am dealing with the literal, loads of it.

Heschel

i started reading the first chapter of abraham joshua Heschel's book God in search of man today and found this quote "When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion its message becomes meaningless." Heschel blames not secular science for religion loosing its voice but rather blames religion itself.