dual personalities

Well, how are you doing nine days before Christmas? Organized and ready to go?

My bedroom is a disaster area, but I’m “getting there” and that’s the best I can do. But getting there is half the fun!

This is an interesting article by a birdwatcher. I know some birdwatchers and I doubt if they would agree with it. “Brother and sisters, God has placed birds in your life…for you to enjoy, to praise God for, to care for and to teach you to be confident and remember that God will look after you.” I like to watch birds because they remind me how obvious it is that God did indeed create the heavens and the earth and that on the fifth day He “let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky…every winged bird according to its kind.” I saw a Bald Eagle when we were driving in mid-MO a few weekends ago and that was very exciting, but seeing a Flicker in the backyard is just as exciting to me! Quel oiseau!

But wait, birds aren’t real, right? Not surprisingly, the New York Times did a front page story on these idiots, but I can’t link to it because I don’t have a subscription. Tant pis.

On a higher plain, here’s a classic Christmas episode of the The Andy Griffith Show from 1962 to put you in a yuletide frame of mind.

And here’s a great old hymn. I remember it from Cool Hand Luke (1967). Harry Dean Stanton sang it.

Through this world of toil and snares,

If I falter, Lord, who cares?

Who with me my burden shares?

None but thee, dear Lord, none but thee.

Hang in there! Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem.  (Isaiah 52: 1)