the lull

“By removing the Bible from schools we would be wasting so much time and money
in punishing criminals and so little pains to prevent crime.
Take the Bible out of our schools and there would be an explosion in crime.”
Benjamin Rush,
Signer of the Declaration of Independence

(hay bales wait in a pasture / Troup Co, Georgia / Julie Cook / 2016)

I know I’m sitting in a time of in-between.
A lull as it were in the frenetic business of life…
both mine and dads.

I’ve been down this road before…
diagnosis, swallowing hard, then waiting…

There is a nervousness in the normalcy to each day’s routine…
as the air is heavily pregnant with an unspoken inevitability.

But to what exactly that inevitable is..is yet to be seen.
For each day has a hidden dread waiting silently behind the averageness of the apparent.

And not only is this indicative of my own current life’s situation,
this same lull is hanging over most, if not all, of Western Civilization

There is a nervous lull, a quiet before an unknown storm…
hanging heavily over the heads of our Christian family.

But what it is exactly… is yet to be seen…
however the sense that something is off-kilter and hanging a bit skewed…
is very much present.

Life is changing…
daring and rapidly spiraling…
with so much being turned upside down on its head.

Yet we go on living…as if things were normal and good…
all the while knowing that something is looming…

Remembering complacency is not our friend…
we’ve watched a dangerous progression…
while turning our backs..

And now the storm clouds are gathering along the horizon
while we wait anxiously in the lull…

Time is truly of the essence…

It is easy to go along with the crowd,
but the one who is committed to living the crucified life will always lean
hard into the wind of opposition and misunderstanding
A. W. Tozer

He said to the crowd:
“When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say,
‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does. 55 And when the south wind blows, you say,
‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is. 56 Hypocrites!
You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky.
How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?
Luke 12:54

(ps update since writing…rushing to Atlanta…a potential crisis with Dad…
all prayers appreciated…)