my careless contagion

You're forgiven if you've never seen the 2017 movie The Greatest Showman. I don't believe it was as popular as it was intended. It is about P.T. Barnum and his circus. It's Hollywoodized, clearly, so it's not entirely accurate, but it does make for a good story.  There is a verse in Proverbs that says, "The eyes of man are never satisfied." There is something in us that pushes always toward more and greater. The movie has many messages, but the overriding one is to be satisfied with the good things in your life. Of course, it's easy to say that once a person has achieved greatness just as P.T. Barnum had, right? Haha. To those of us who struggled most of our lives to achieve a modicum of normal it's quite another thing.  But, this is really about the song for me. Never Enough is amazing in the movie, and it stands well on its own. It's quite impressive. It gives me goosebumps every time. What's even greater is realizing someone actually san...

"The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." (Proverbs 18:10) The above proverb relates to a recent post about the names of God. The very name of God is a strong tower or defense. According to Philippians 2:9-11 ( Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father), there is nothing higher than the name of Jesus Christ (nor more powerful!). And, as Christians are supposed to point the way to Jesus Christ, Jesus points the way to the Father. In Him is found everything we need or want. In these present times, which are more than a little uncertain, some things remain certain. Those things are found in my Bible, from which I daily seek comfort. Lately, I've been spen...

In the book of Proverbs, there is a verse that says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." I believe this is a spiritual perishing, but what is true in the spiritual is often true in the physical, as well; otherwise, Jesus wouldn't have used physical truths to reveal spiritual truths. The two realities often reveal one another. I think of the physical realm as the tip of an iceberg. The spiritual realm is the unseen part. It looms much larger than we realize. But we get a sense of it through the physical realm.  While I've been engaged in a pretty intensive retrospective — a retrospective I am not done with, by the way — I have also been thinking quite a bit about my future. Do I have a vision for the future? Am I doomed to perish? Is it too soon? Does it matter? I mean, it feels like my life is over anyway. Given the sheer embarrassment my life has turned into, it's only natural I've retreated to a...