The Ziklag Almost Daily 1.5.24

Beauty, Wisdom and Grace

A full day given over to caring for my son, and then playing catch up.

Getting medical attention today is something I ask more questions about than I used to. “Do no harm,” still sounds like a pretty reasonable (if pagan) postulate. But the mounting evidence of harm being done (and ignored) has made me more reticent to trust anyone whose paycheck will be determined by whether or not I receive treatment.

“Don’t ask a barber if you need a haircut.” 
                                                                  -Tim Ferris

Yesterday’s conspiracy theory is today’s regimented marching orders. Fear and isolation is the goal of our enemies.

How deep is too deep in the mires of Babylon?

I don’t doubt I over-ponder it and fill it with all manner of inner hysteria gleaned from horrible and wicked stories “far away.” As a result, some of you may now be worried over my boy, when you need not be - though your prayers are most surely appreciated. (His name is Fides, pronounced Fee-days). We are well in his hands and know that this leads us to even greater things than we can imagine now.

But, unless Jesus has better plans, this is a minor issue. In the context of 2020 hindsight, it gives me pause. “Do no harm,” in a good place to start. “Trust not in princes,” comes to mind as well. “To seize discipline: measurement, accuracy, yes, symmetry,” strikes a cord. “A time to tear, and a time to sew,” and “a time to heal.”

The rest is in Jesus’ hands.

The King knows what he is doing.

I’d always heard that getting a second opinion was a good idea. Even on a minor thing, it’s certainly worth the morning spent with my son.

Maybe tomorrow…

📐🦋Almost Daily Maxim

Hiding from the issue does nothing but miss the opportunity therein. cf Pr 27:5

📐🦄Almost Daily Red Letters

Sometimes what is true sometimes isn’t so true at the moment. cf Mt 5:43

📐🦊Almost Daily Smarts

Once you understand that your desktop is a Battlefield, it will never “be messy” again. It will be *in use.* The real question is, what battle are you going to use that flat surface for?

The good answers to that are manifold, but the principle is that the being is the result of resolution “in formation” in a place and on purpose. Information is a rotary express, not a static binding.

📐📦 Almost Daily Talk Them Into It

Yes, you can talk people into being Christian.

Quite honestly, that’s the only way it ever happens.

Nitpick about the power of prayer, the work of the Spirit, the regeneration of baptism, or the love by which the world shall know we follow the True Master.

But none of that does any good to the person perishing in front of you if you are too stilled to open your mouth.

Wake up.

Our love shall stun the world. Our prayers to Jesus Christ shall be heard. The Spirit blows as and when He will. Because of this, in this, under as this, no saint of the heights nor sinner of the depths comes to be a Christian without hearing the life and the deeds of Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.

📐🪽From the Wyr Eld of Watergeist

“When the King summoned me from my reclusion,” the hermit began. “I had sat alone in my cave beside the delta of the Khozitcys river for over twenty years. My food was a paste I made from the weeds and algae that grew on the waters’ many stones. My clothing, as you see it now, was the skin of a deer which I found sheltering in the cave the day I entered it. I slew it in its sleep, and drank of its life’s blood as I spoke the last words I would say until the King’s men came for me.”

This, at least, was not what Earth expected.

The hermit went on….

📐🌊Almost Daily Sun Tzu

No man is ready to fight what he has never seen. cf Sun Tzu 1:26B

Till Then, like a tree, by streams…