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I was greatly encouraged by today's reading in Matthew on the Daily Audio Bible and the host's comments on it. He does a reading from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs. So, you would have to wade through all of that to find his reading out of Matthew and later his comments on it in the broadcast. The OT reading is about Jacob and Laban and specked goats and black sheep and kids being born of Leah and Rachel plus their women servants with Jacob...all that is, is a mess. Yet out of this mess, comes the Messiah. The verse in Matthew that the host spoke about was Matthew 10:16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves." If we read what Jesus promises to His Disciples before that verse (healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons) and after that verse (floggings. whippings, persecutions) it makes if clear that when we stand for the right the wrong does not go "Well, OK, have y...

Romans 8:22 "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. " Yesterday, when I wrote my blog on the song "Something is Always Wrong" is was hoping that it would tourniquet the bleeding of wrong for a season. I was hoping God would scatter the troubles because I was embracing admirably the portion of pain that was being served up. Like, "Eric gets it....no need to crank up the problem index." Trouble waxes and wanes and I was seeking low tide for a bit. Well, almost no sooner than after pushing "Publish Post" to yesterday's blog, I went downstairs down into the basement to lift weights. What I saw distressed me: the makings of a pool to swim in! Not looking to have an aquatic center in my basement. "Yippee" was not the first word out of my mouth. Lina and I have known for some time (not long enough though) that the inbound plumbing in our house is something called "Quest." It turns ...

Back in my grad school days at Millersville University, the rock band "Toad the Wet Sprocket" (TTWS) came through M.U. to do a show then head out. Nearly great bands seem consigned to the college and club circuit, like the first ring of Limbo in Dante's Inferno. I am sure that there is an interesting tale as to how this band came to name itself "Toad the Wet Sprocket." Uncharacteristically, I am not going to pursue finding this out...instead I am going to savor the mystery for a spell. TTWS's best known song is "Something is Always Wrong." Yesterday, while labeling and stuffing over 1,000 enveloped at my high school, I heard this song on Pandora/my I-Phone. Before leaving home, I wisely decided to pack my earbuds so I could listen to music while doing the drudgery. Learned that lesson from my dishwashing days...music makes the mendaciously mundane tolerable. Considering how I am feeling about my Ph.D./Dissertation right now, this tune might as wel...