Excerpts...

I was reflecting this morning that my wife & her husband

seem to be growing more different (not more bland).

I hope it isn't just that I am getting (sometimes I feel) grumpier.

The normal problems of life: 

opportunities to trust the Father for daily bread, 

or to fret instead. 

(which for me almost seems

to have nothing to do with the system I am in.

I mean, I think the system (though it is important, 

& can be more or less useful) is simply a servant. 

And if it doesn't serve well, then it misses out, 

because God will raise up another servant 

to feed his people (thinking of Elisha 

being brought bread by ravens,

not the "system" of the Nation of Israel). 

But if the best way of developing (& showing off)

his children is for their prayers to appear unanswered

for  40 days in a row, 

then GOD can see that no bread comes through,

or (like with brother Yun), that his child lasts 

for 50 or 60 days without bread. ...

either way, I get to be on an adventure with

the creator of the Universe, 

the Father (& Mother) of all folk

that, though it starts this side

of the "Great Divide" (a little creek?)

bounds over it and

goes on into New Heavens

& a New Earth - the LIFE of the God

which needs neither light, nor breath, food, nor drink;

and is all of those to us!

Yipee!