Sarcasm keeps you from telling people what you really think of them.

Do you ever feel a particularly intense desire to have a conversation with God? Not just pray, but to speak and be spoken to - audibly? To converse as you do with others?
I hope when we get to heaven he’s not too busy to talk, just the two of us.

Did anyone else listen to Weekend Edition on NPR this morning? And if so, did you catch the retelling of the nativity scene with contemporary details? They wove in pop celebrities, iPhones, recent news stories and puppy dogs. I found it so blatantly offensive that I wrote an email to them about it. Among other things I asked them if they would have taken the same liberties with the sacred texts of other religions. I think not.

By contrast, this week’s edition of Car Talk was one of the funniest I’ve heard in a long time. The first caller was hilarious and it just kept going.

If this airplane guy was Al Qaida trained we have nothing to worry about. If the best they can do is get a doofus to set his own pants on fire they pose no serious threat.
And if his fellow passengers had only known his plan wasn’t going to work they could have let him alone to suffer the full consequences of his ineptitude. “Hoisted on his own petard.”

So here I am on a Saturday all geeked about tomorrow’s time in God’s Word and also thinking about the number of people who will still be out of town visiting family for the holiday and/or home sick with the seasonal crud. [insert: sovereignty of God]

One of the advantages of old age is getting away with saying stuff that would otherwise be considered intrusive. Advancing age implies some level of sagacity. This is a power which can be used for both good and evil. I hope I’m always doing the former.

You gotta wonder whether some people have a conscience.
Arrow Trucking out of Tulsa runs semi’s all over the country. At least they used to. They announced to all of their employees last Thursday - yes, Christmas Eve - that they were shutting down. No notice. The office personnel were just told to pack up their things and go home. Worse, their truck drivers, spread throughout the country, were left stranded. Their gas cards were suddenly deactivated. Many truckers didn’t know what had happened until they tried to fill their tanks and couldn’t. No way to get home, never mind deliver their load.
Many truck drivers have heard the news and are sharing with Arrow drivers a little fuel from their trucks, but they have to account for what they buy vs. miles travelled, so it’s not like any one guy can do much.
Shouldn’t there be a way to find the people who decided this was how to close down a company and deal them some retributive justice?

Urban Meyer resigns as head coach of Florida. Now that’s big news! “To concentrate on health and family.” Something’s up.

Ever since the Tiger Woods story broke I’ve been reminded of a line I heard years ago...decades ago. It was a PBS movie about Admiral Nelson, the British naval hero. After news of his affair with a married woman broke his humiliated wife angrily confronted her husband, famous for his victories at sea over Napoleon’s fleet and his arrogance.
“Why do you think the rules don’t apply to you?”
That’s one of the risks of success and the adulation that comes with it. Someone from Tiger’s inner circle has said Tiger didn’t think of his behavior as wrong, but as one of the perks of his success.

Time for supper. See you in 24.