The Intersection of Bible and Life

“She didn’t make it.”   “He never got here.”   “We came up short.”    The gut-wrenching words of a surgeon uttered somberly in a hospital waiting room to frantic parents.    The words of a friend reporting the progress of his buddy’s journey.   Words disclosing the disappointing results of a fund raiser.   Sad words.   Difficult words.   Life-altering words.   Think about these words from 1 Timothy, 18  This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,   19  holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,   20  among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. Or these words from 2 Timothy 4:10, 10  For  Demas,  in love with  this present world,  has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica.   Crescens has gone to Galatia,   Titus to Dalmatia. Shipwreck and desert

Some thoughts on Anxiety (and how to make it disappear).   Feeling a touch of anxiety these days?   Maybe a ton ?   Anybody have none ?   The “nones” among us are aliens from another world.   An obviously less stressful and chaotic world.   The other “nones” are machines.   Perfectly programmed robots immune to what normally stimulates a human beings thoughts and feelings.   They can’t feel peace or joy either and so they should have our sympathy.   There are other possibilities.   More realistic alternatives but no less disturbing.   Like the person in denial who refuses to acknowledge their own pain and loss and what’s sadder the loss and pain of others.   The truth is that the world is a troubling place.   There are myriad, nearly innumerable reasons to stress.   Originally, God created perfect order and a world where stress made no sense.   Chaos and disorder slithered in and took root.   Disorientation has blossomed and gone viral until we have a full-blown pandemic of worry