I started reading through the Chronological Bible yesterday (if you didn't know, the Bible isn't laid out chronologically, so reading through it in a timeline fashion can really help put the whole of it in perspective and help you understand how it fit within world historical events). Of course, I started in Genesis, because that's the beginning, no matter how you slice it. I was reading along about creation and how God would speak something into existence and it would be done. Over and over He would say "Let there be (water or land or sky...)" and it was followed up by this: And it was so. I spent the better part of the day with that four word phrase tumbling around in my head like...

  I was in a store recently with a large display of televisions for sale. You've seen it before; all of them are playing the same movie at the same time, and often something animated that shows the fabulous clarity of the always evolving technology. This day they were all showing The Lion King. I wasn't shopping for a TV, so I was just passing by, but I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard Mufasa telling Simba this: You have forgotten who you are, and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself Simba, you are more than you have become. Okay, Mufasa. I don't know about Simba, but you have my attention. I suspect that you, like me, struggle at times with the whole purpose thing, and...