- Brother Lawrence
The preactice of the presence of God
...reminiscing about the meaning of life and the world and spiritual matters.... thinking out loud... cataloguing life... chronicling God moments... blueprints, rough drafts and different ideas...proof- texting... eisegesis... come and see for yourself... I DARE YOU TO ENTER THE MIND & WORLD OF MR. BILSON! (Warning! This is not for the dull or dignified or both.)
I simply argue that the cross be raised again
and the center of the marketplace
as well as on the steeple of the church,
I am recovering the claim the Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral
between two candles:
But on a cross between two theives;
on a town garbage heap;
At a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan
that they had to write his title
in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek...
And at the kind of place where cynics talks smut,
and thieves curse and soldiers gamble.
Because that is where he died,
and that is what he died about.
And that is where Christ's men ought to be,
and what church people ought to be about.
by George Macleod
5Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 6because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.'
7"Then the one inside answers, 'Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.' 8I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man's boldness he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
9"So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
(Luke 11:1-10)