Read Mark 4:41. What question did they ask in their great fear? “‘Who is this?’ (‘Even the wind and the waves obey Him.’)” ✭ Trying to wrap human language around holy exposure is like trying to cover a big screen TV with six inches of Christmas paper. Do you understand from experience what I’m talking…
Dearest Rachel – It was an interesting start to the day, honey. I was assured by Copilot that the trains departing the Arlington Heights station for Ogilvie would show up there at about 48 minutes past the hour, so I made a point of leaving the house shortly after nine (but not without extending a…
Dearest Rachel – Since I really want to get this out before I have to leave the house in the morning, this letter is mostly being written ahead of time. Oh, I expect to have a fair amount to tell you about regarding today’s activities, but that won’t be until I get home, and by…
Dearest Rachel – Good news this morning (or, more accurately, from Tuesday afternoon); Daniel called in to the county as instructed on his summons, and it turns out that his services were not required after all, which was a relief. I was fully prepared to escort him down there (despite never having been called to…
Dearest Rachel – Given a fairly calm and otherwise uneventful week – it’s too hot and muggy to go walking (and in any event, Lars is being visited by some old friends from Europe, although he’s invited me to join them on Friday when they hit the city in earnest; we’ll see how that goes),…
Dearest Rachel – It’s been one of those days where nothing interesting is happening, at least not personally, which is okay; life doesn’t always have to have something monumental going on in it every day. In fact, if it did, it would get to the point where a boring day would be the most unusual…
Dearest Rachel – In a song that I woke up the other day running around in my head, Bob Dylan lamented “all the hours [he’d] spent inside the Coliseum / Dodging lions, and wasting time.” He claimed later on that “some day, ev’rything is gonna be diff’rnt / When I paint my masterpiece.” And while…
Dearest Rachel – It’s actually kind of funny; as summer comes to a close, the social calendar ramps up with a quickness. Which is sort of ironic, because everything’s pretty slow during the summer – now that we all get back to our commitments, we’re being called to this or that event on top of…
Look at the first verse of each letter to the Thessalonians. Who were the writers/senders? “Paul, Silas (Silvanus) and Timothy” An intriguing anomaly appears in the introduction to Galatians. Additional senders are listed but unnamed (see 1:2). Who are they? “and all the brothers with me – Paul’s whole entourage” Think back on a harsh…
Dearest Rachel – I feel like I should apologize for yesterday; normally, I can get a letter out to you before noon without fail – and most of it was put together both early and quickly – but the story couldn’t be resolved until the work was done by the repair team when they came…
Letters to Rachel 