Prepare Ye

I spent the better part of today driving around my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan . Since I headed off to The LTS two years ago, I really have not been back long enough to see how it had changed in that time, and when I had been back, I was usually tied up with family duties. So I just took the day to drive around to see the sights. Now Saginaw has been hard struck by the crash of the automobile industry in the 80's and has never recovered. Unemployment is somewhere in the 20% area and that only counts those who still can still collect benefits. When I was growing up in the late 60's and through the 70's, there were about a dozen plants, all running three shifts a day and sometimes working on weekends. Now there are a couple of plants working single shifts. I was stunned by how many plants no longer exist. They are not just vacant, they aren't there. They've been bulldozed, rubble removed and are now green areas surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire. I drove b...

For the past couple of weeks, I have been on a break. Not a Ross & Rachel break, but days of rest. It feels like I've been going non-stop for so long, I don't know what to do with time off. So I have been a couch potato. I've been going through what stuff I want to take back to Michigan when I go back for about a month to spend with my Mom, y'know the stuff I dragged out to G'burg, but haven't used in 2 years. I had been looking at taking back some books, especially ones I knew I wouldn't use in the Garden on internship, but decided to put those into storage here in G'burg. But I've spent time flipping through some, especially some that I bought pre-Seminary when I was trying to deepen my understanding of exactly what I am doing. And I've realized there are as many takes on the role and nature of God, salvation and the relationship between humanity and the Divine as there are people willing to put their thoughts to paper. Sometimes, many time...

Posts this week may be more infrequent than usual because I'm on Spring Break!!! I'll be working on my tan from the exotic sunny shores of Michigan. I'm must be really dumb. Rather than going to Florida, Texas or Mexico and evangelizing the heathens there, (Hey, Christ went where the sin was) I'm spending the week in 20* Michigan.