April 21, 2003

• Adam Smith and the Wineskins

   

  Take one down and pass it around

  Here’s an economy for everyone:

   

      Life is a dream, a cup spilling over

      Foaming like everyone’s lager

        You drink it for mirth

        You slurp it for worth

        You order a round for good measure.

   

      Send me a barrel

      I’ll roll down the aisle

      Wed to your sorrows of morrow;

      Roll me a ciggie

      I’ll puff til I’m dizzy

      Your gods and your pleasures to borrow.

   

      So pass it around and don’t be so greedy,

      The economy of life is so bullish!

      Push ever onward

      To climb ever higher

      There’s Icarus caught in the moment.

   

  Perhaps I’m a beggar, Saunder Simpcoxe

  Sporting a sign ever ready,

  Ignoring the Maker

  Digging for Change

  Looking for hope to recycle.

  
  I sign.

  Will work for a miracle

  Bum a roam to Siloam.

   

  —————-

  

  look closely at the kid in the middle… best seat in the house!

   

  ———

   

  It was a good Easter weekend.

   

  Here’s no Evel Knievel but I’m enjoying the unknown, taking steps of faith, going after all the things I’ve wanted (and BAM! I’m a balding man in his forties).  Soaring over decommissioned school buses and scrapped cars, I just might drag my face over steel, legs tangling painful.  But for now, it looks like I’ll make it across just fine.  Here’s a nervous glance upward.

   

  (And a little pleading is a good thing.)  Thank God for grace. 

   

  Here’s a hymn you belt:

   

  Raise your joys and triumphs hiiiigh!  A~llelujah.

  Singing heaven and earth’s replyyy, A~~llelujah.

   

  <grin>

   

  —-

   

  Jonathon Alter is great.  Here’s his latest.

   

  Matt11:28

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