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Peter writes in 2 Peter 3:10 "The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire." I did a Bible Study on this verse today in trying to consider how the broken glass-like image of humanity (see previous blogs for my train of thought) and the world's brokeness in general, is to be restored to wholeness. A conflagration, a universal burning, leading to transformation. This is not God playing with matches just as Noah's Flood was not God with a garden hose. A cosmic incinerator as it were. Out of ashes, beauty.

I am sinning right now...as I type. My heart aches because it is troubled. Because it is troubled, that is why I am sinning. Jesus tells me that my heart should not be troubled; that I should believe in Him. But, I answer, "Lord, I do believe." Maybe, I need to believe more. Or, believe in a different way. I am not sure. It has been a hard week at work (pulled 3 twelve hour days thus far this week just to not fall behind more) and I don't want to be glib and say something I don't mean like "Tough times don't last but tough people do." Or some other sub-Christian cliche crapola. I'd rather says that it takes "A tough man to make a tender chicken" an old ad line of Frank Perdue--a man who not only sold chicken but looked like a chicken. The last line was just thrown in to make this otherwise ponderful blog entry more entertaining. I do have to admit that this world causes me to be chicken sometimes. I wonder how all of the brokeness will be ...

The band U2 sang the the song "Nothing Changes on New Year's Day" "where the world is white and on its way." (click the title for the 1982 song's video--the members look like they are in middle school!). The U2 song came to me after I broke the glass to the picture frame for the inspirational quotes at IKEA on New Year's Day (see previous blogs). The inspirational quotes were like hopeful resolutions; I had my quotes and would be able to view them clearly. Well, even before I had a chance to mount the quotes, I broke the glass. Nothing changes on New Year's Day. Furher blogs will develop how God's grace alone changes things.