The perfect barber? He’s fast, good, and doesn’t talk all the time. I may just have found him.
He cut my hair for the third time today, and I'm impressed. That says a lot.
¶ A long time now, counting in years, I ditched Google and all its products. Never looked back. Got off FB, which I figured out their game; I’d built up a sizeable following only to get a knife in the back with the algorisms. That was the light bulb going on. It can get lonely sometimes, but I’m not looking to build up a paying audience. I’m also good with just my own company, for the most part. And I have friends in real life.
¶ Went with the Missus this afternoon to supermarket, meat store, and natural store. I survived. I did it because she has the use of her left arm only.
¶ Left the Missus at therapy this morning for a short shock treatment to the shoulder. It’s supposed to speed up bone healing. I wandered in Carrefour for 30 seconds, then in a home decorating and products store that must be for the upper 1%, if the prices are any indication.
¶ Warren B. wound up a fine article (sent by email, sorry) with these words:
Whatever issue David is facing in Psalm 17 he knows he has to be honest with God. “I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.” David will not utter idle words. His lips will not speak deceitfully. David will be honest with himself and he will be honest with God. To do any less would be to transgress with his mouth.
What our mouths speak come from the heart (Matthew 15:18). So to keep our mouths in line with God we have to have our hearts in line with him as well. And that is a great challenge. One of the reasons we have so many psalms and proverbs about the heart and speech is because keeping them both pure before God has been man’s perennial problem. That is a challenging thought, because it means we will always wrestle with this tension. But it is also comforting, because we know we do not struggle alone, and because we have the great writings of David to encourage us in the battle.
¶ An original verse:
The tongue tires not, the only muscle
that needs no rest ─ people we know
can eat and talk both at the same time.
They probably speak in their sleep as well.
I’m glad I’m not around them so much.
¶ A verse for today, for the Final Word, Jeremiah 29.11 CEB: “I know the plans I have in mind for you, declares the Lord; they are plans for peace, not disaster, to give you a future filled with hope.”