Mine's on the upswing. Been up since 3:30 a.m. Ran the In-Laws to the airport for a trip to my nephew's educated exit from higher ed. (Read graduation.) Went back to bed for an hour, listening to random music on my iPhone, much of which I hardly knew was on it. Decided my first tweet …
Water: Exhaustive vs. Substantial
Water. What do I know of it? Do I know much? Is what I know enough to thought of as real knowledge? And what are the implications of me not knowing as much as can be known? Can a simple glass of water give me true knowledge about water's nature? It's an image that came …
Run, Lola, Run / Choices, Chance, Outcomes
My small film group watched Run, Lola, Run last night, a 1998 German film in which a young woman receives a desperate phone call from her boyfriend. He has lost 100,000 Deutsche Mark, and unless he can deliver this enormous amount of cash to his drug-dealing boss within 20 minutes, he will most likely be …
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Anybody Know How to Hear God?
Say there was a character who decided he was going to hear a definitive word from God or be damned trying. He saunters along in the jazzy rain, barely noticing the rain noodling in through the holes in his jeans, too lost in an imminently practical and frustrating question: how to hear from God? He …
Is War the Best Metaphor for Prayer?
On my daughter's 21st birthday, cherishing the time we've had together, and the joy it has and will continue to bring me, I have a question about our life and communication with God. Is it all about war? "Prayer warriors" is a term that comes up a lot in conversations, referencing, of course, the spiritual …
JEFF BERRYMAN 