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Hair on Fire

Some of you have asked if I dropped your Feast of Booths subscription (my last post was April 11th). The answer is “no.” The past few weeks have been extra busy, and while I don’t have much hair, what little I have has been on fire. Much of the business has been with good and happy stuff (like Easter), and other things are just part of pastoral work. I needed a blog break and I realized that your world would not come to an end if you didn’t receive my puny “pearls of wisdom” every day. So, perhaps you can enjoy the break with me. I hope to return to pester you soon enough. I’m now headed out to a bed-and-breakfast weekend with my girlfriend.

You’re a Menace

…there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really was. All Jesus did was announce that truth and tell you it would make you free. It was admittedly a dangerous thing to do. You are a menace. But he did it; and therefore, menace or not, here you stand: uncondemned, forever, now. What are you going to do with your freedom?

― Robert Farrar Capon, Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

Christin’s Book of Quotations

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. – Oscar Wilde
The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. – Voltaire
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? – Abraham Lincoln
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man. – Jack Handy

While at college, my daughter (Christin) began to keep a book of her favorite quotations, and over time it grew. It contains thoughts from the silly to the profound. I enjoyed them and have added some of my own. A few years ago I shared some of them online and several others said they looked forward to them. So, I’m reviving “Christin’s Book of Quotations.”

More Wisdom from Bishop Ryle

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
But depend on it, bad company in this life is the sure way to procure worse company in the life to come.
The saddest road to hell is the one that runs under the pulpit, past the Bible, and through the middle of warnings and invitations.
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one.
There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough―a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice―which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

—J. C. Ryle, b. May 10, 1816 – d. June 10, 1900, he was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool