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Murphy’s Law and Offering It Up
Well, today has been all about dealing with technical difficulties with this blog, and after three hours I have made zero progress. Zero! As I’ve been unable to connect to an actual human being, it looks like I might not be able to solve my problems. I guess what I’m trying to say is it looks like Murphy’s Law in full force right now. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the pessimism that the Irish have coined into a simple phrase, Murphy’s Law in Brief states “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.” Oh boy! The good news is that with God’s grace, even those in-grained pessimistic tendencies…
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Why I’m Always Late and Other Thoughts on Lent
Well, we’re two days into Lent and so far, so good. How about you? One of my resolutions for Lent came on a Friday, a few months back, when my 6 year old turned to me as we shuffled into the “cryroom/confessional/people trying to avoid the shame of everybody knowing they’ve arrived late” section and asked me, “Why are we always late?” Doh! It was a perfectly valid question — one to which I had no valid response — and so I just stared into those little brown eyes and replied, “We’re not always late”. Which is technically true. We are not always late. On most Sundays, we manage to…
