Tag: Calvin & Hobbes
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“Collecting Shells at the Beach”
There is a Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip with the first 11 squares depicting Calvin engaged in various leisure activities. In the 12th frame, Calvin’s Mom asks him to take a bag of garbage to the trash can. With composure completely changed, in the next frame, Calvin laments, “Some vacation THIS Summer is!” Similarly, each…
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Happiness, outside of success or failure!
“If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;” ‘If,’ Rudyard Kipling During his 1990 Commencement Address to Kenyon College, Bill Watterson (Creator of Calvin & Hobbes), speaking on several things he didn’t like to do, then said, “I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that…
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Cards & Calves
“…the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him,” Exodus 32:1 Our family enjoys playing Skyjo and no one more so than my youngest. I think one of the reasons he enjoys it, is that he often wins. Despite his propensity to win, any time he looks behind or distracted other people at…
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While it may be work, it’s not about the hustle…
While it may make me an outlier, I hate this meme! It’s specious! It wasn’t the Israelites ‘hustle’ that freed them from the Egyptians; it was their willingness to submit to a higher power. A crackheads hustle is not evidence of superior work ethic; they have succumbed to the bonds of addiction. Most often, people…
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Unintended Consequences
Jethro’s reunion with Moses in Exodus 18 gives some insights as to when our best intentions can or do array… 17. And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. So what was he doing? Spending, at least in his father-in-law’s mind, too much time in judgement and…
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His Path
Still thinking about a book I finished awhile back by Robert Reynolds called ‘Unstuck.’ He said, referring to allowing God to direct our path, “In the end, every path of our own creation will lead to less happiness and more captivity.” We need to be willing, like Moses, to say, “Now therefore, I pray thee,…
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When You Don’t Have Answers…
What expectations did Moses have for his time in Midian? Having fled Egypt with a price on his head, I imagine that at least some of those years were spent looking over his shoulder, but when he left Midian to head back to Egypt he didn’t exactly run. Was it fear of what might happen?…
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Living with the In-Laws and Other Unmet Expectations
Upon fleeing Egypt, Moses decides to stay in Midian. In the various Biblical Translations, there is an assortment of adjectives to describe his disposition on staying: Agreed, Content, Willing, Consented (see Exodus 2:21). While all positive or at least neutral in nature it doesn’t reflect the grandest endorsement on his desire to stay, albeit his…