Ever wonder how ordinary things got their names? Me too. Last night as I was washing my hair, I got to thinking about the word Shampoo. I repeated it over and over and it sounded weirder and weirder each time. It comes from the Hindi language of India.

We typically talk about the grace of Jesus with warmth and gratitude. And I do feel those things from time to time. But 2017 was a year where his grace haunted me more than anything else. To be persistently and disturbingly present. Would be the object of grace that would offend me. Jesus froze the Civil War in its tracks and began a new Civil War, this time in the heart of Dursley. How could he choose a side? No one had the audacity to l.

Live life, stop philosophizing. But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the Lord, and He answered me from His holy hill. I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me. Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! My hope is built on nothing less.