Stuck in a Moment while Waiting on the World to Change...

Really cool mix of these two songs....

Grace does not do tit-for-tat

I have recently discovered a book recommended by Michael Spencer, aka the Internment Monk. The book is 'Between Noon and Three,' by Robert Farrar Capon. He hits the nail on the head when it comes to talking about grace. Grace isn't just a bystander. It is the very thing that we need to utterly depend upon.

From the book:

Confession is not the first step on the road to recovery; it is the last step in the displaying of a corpse... words like reform and rehabilitation should be ruled out of order. The only proper word here is resurrection. Grace does not do things tit-for-tat; it acts finally and fully from the start.

We love tit-for-tat. Rules are so much easier and convenient. It makes everything nice and clean. No mess. Grace is messy. Very messy. We are dead. Dead people cannot clean themselves up. They can be reformed. Only resurrected. Made completely new again.

Confession is necessary. Not to clean a guilty conscious, mind you. But it is the place where we realize our guilt. And we confess that we cannot fix ourselves. Only then can we place ourselves in the hands of our Father, be resurrected, made new, and live completely under His grace.

First Post

I don't know the statistics for how many bloggers stick it out... probably the vast majority don't last past one or two posts. This blog may be another statistic. Who knows?

And if I do stick it out, I am unsure, of the direction of this thing might be... if anyone will read it, or if it will some sort of journal or diary. Only time will tell.

The title of this blog means, hopefully, exactly what it says. I all know but so much about anything. And most things, I know nothing about at all. I don't presume to know anything at all. But it is a place for me to put my thoughts out there, and if anyone cares to even come around this part of the internets, then they can respond as they see fit.

Until later.

Zach