May 2009 – Page 5 – 300 words a day

looking for a reason

Sometimes you have conversations that are conversations. Sometimes questions are asked for the purpose of finding out the answer. “How is it with your soul?” is a question seeking an answer, trying to help someone else reflect. “What is the question you don’t want me to ask?” is a question about trust, about helping someone […]

by Jon Swanson

New rules

The rules were very clear, at least to some people. If you are in a field and you are hungry and you pick some of the grain and eat it because you are incredibly hungry from living on the move, you are wrong. Not because if you eat too many oats you’ll get sick like […]

by Jon Swanson

A question of stopping

Sometimes you just have to stop. Sometimes you have to stop and listen and ask and listen. Sometimes you need questions. Simple questions. Questions of few syllables and deep thought. When was the last time you stopped? That’s an easy question to ask. That’s a very difficult question to be asked. Which is why I […]

by Jon Swanson

dancing and dirges

Picture a group of children. They are the kind of children that are pretty sure that they are the center of the universe. They are the kind of children that think they can tell everyone else what to do. They are the kind of children who think that they are the measure of what is […]

by Jon Swanson

wondering again

John wondered about Jesus. The John known as John the Baptist. Jesus had two things to say, one to John’s followers and one to Jesus’ followers. To John’s followers, the ones who were bringing the question from John who was in jail, Jesus simply said, “Go and tell John what you see and hear.” The […]