October 2011 – Page 2 – 300 words a day

Paul didn’t number his sentences.

1 When Paul was writing to Timothy, a friend, a mentee, a disciple, he just wrote a letter. Just like I’m writing to you. 2 He didn’t number his sentences. The verse numbers and the chapter divisions and the section headings are interpretive. 3 They make it easy to find things. But they are also […]

by Jon Swanson

The need to review

I’m finding, as I age and as I multi-task and multi-think and multi-network, that I remember less and less. This is a pain. Sometimes, of course, it’s not critical to my work. For example, I forgot where Argentina was until I made a graphic for my boss. Who will be in Argentina next week. But […]

by Jon Swanson

when the baby has enough.

A hungry baby is a terrible thing. First comes whimpering. Then crying. Then a screaming that consumes the child’s whole body. Long before danger of starvation, the child makes sure that there is no one within earshot that has any question about a need for food. That same child, a bottle or a breast later, is content. No […]

by Jon Swanson

more than watchmen waiting.

You are waiting. You aren’t sure what’s happening. You can’t see to the end of today. And you are waiting. It reminds you of that summer before your senior year of high school, the summer that you worked third shift. All alone in the building, all alone working on the computer. Sometimes alone is okay. […]

by Jon Swanson

Elevator speech

“The son of man has come to seek and save the lost.” That was how Jesus summarized his work one day shortly before he was murdered. He was sitting in the house of a rich man. He had invited himself over. The rich man had just committed half of his resourced to the poor. He […]