An Inconvenient Christianity

On Monday of this week, much ado was made about Diana Nyad (pictured below. Photo courtesy of CNN.com). She was the first person to swim the 90 miles from Cuba to Key West without a shark tank. She failed the first 4 times she attempted the swim, but finally succeeded on her 5th and final attempt....at the age of 64. Her determination was unshakable. She defied so many odds, they are too numerous to name. And she inspired me. Not only to make my lifelong dreams come true... ...but spiritually as well. Determination means persevering through inconvenience. It means not getting sidetracked or stymied by setbacks. It is about learning from the setbacks and making efforts to get past them. Look at Diana Nyad. Her most recent attempt before this one ended in abject failure because of jellyfish. She did not anticipate them and suffered greatly. In this attempt, she wore a protective face mask and made it to the end. As Christians, we too must use determination. Like Diana Nyad, n

Happy Labour Day out there! So...I have been ruminating about a lot lately. There is so much fodder in my life for a good blog that I often have no clue where to begin. I recognize that it has been a while...In fact, I was reminded of that just yesterday (I'm looking at you Ms. "Uplifting Souls"). So here goes... A few days ago, I was in a meeting with some of the saints and one person was giving a praise report. She had gotten some positive news about a medical diagnostic test that she had recently undergone. She ended by saying in essence that she knew that God was good to her because of her clean bill of health. I wanted to rejoice with her. I did. But the first thing the Holy Spirit brought to my mind was this one question: "So if the result was negative would God's goodness cease?" I'm sure if I had asked her that, her answer would be a resounding NO. I'm almost positive that she didn't mean her statement like it sounded. She couldn&