When a man feels he is dying..legitimately or otherwise…he cries out to God and to Woman.

That’s the truest sentence I have ever written.

But as Hemingway says, every story if told to it’s completion ends in death. It does not end in Woman. I’m not gonna bother proving the point that is so obvious. Turn on your TV to our death denying woman-using culture.

Let’s move on.

Jesus

A close friend noted an NPR program with Dawkins. What a pathological prick. Muddy thinking, bad exegesis and pomposity to boot. He reminds me, strangely of me at my worst. No wonder he sells books. Remember 51% of Americans bought Bush. We are a stupid people easily scared and enticed.

As usual Dawkins would make Jesus plastic and safe.

Let me turn our dime. Your very existence is patterned in the Word: Jesus Himself. You were created in, through and ultimately for Him. He is the pattern you have been searching for your whole life.

Hidden

I don’t get this. Fundieheads like Dobsen grab headlines (this morning) and wars are made Christianized along with greed and usury. Jesus weeps, the Holy Spirit is shunned, the Father chain smokes. It’s a Trinitarian mess if you buy into their mess.

Okay…sighs…I get one thing. The spiritual life is a “hidden life”. You know this. You sense this in others who choose love and faith and hope against all odds. They are connected elsewhere. It’s not easy. In fact, it’s often brutal for them.

Death is real. Jesus is Risen. We live a “hidden life” that will not be fully revealed until He is revealed in glory.

Life

In one way or another you awake with this question about “life”.

A wise man wrote a group of ruffians saying “When Christ, who is your life is revealed…you will be revealed with Him”

It’s not easy to find our feet through the “blind surf of events”…to find the “stone levels”. But He is our life.

(as I write this I hear Bono…”one step closer to knowing…” It could not be more appropriate)

The new U2 album is out and people are howling because they have no “reinvented” themselves again. As if that was the deep human crises and need (for 10 bucks on iTunes).

Read the lyrics…this may be the most important album since War. “Eyes to see” not ears to hear.

~!Mac