Today I will comment on something that happened a couple of days ago, maybe even yesterday. A lady died while biking. She was a very rich and quite famous lady, working with amazon.com in its start-up days. I love amazon, I have published my books and my music there and I think it is great they are there. But here is the hick. They don't seem to be paying their workers a lot. This lady happens to have been responsible for finances. How come she dies dirt rich where the workers are scraping? She made a difference to many lives, did she make a difference to those who worked for her? - When I was a kid I admired the genius, the rebellious. I thought - wow - these guys know that things should be different in life. And then these famous, different, rebellious people go home, beating their wives, scolding their children, cheating, not paying fair wages, watching and producing porn and much more. This is not written to condemn. It is written to say they are a lot like anybody else. - I found out, little by little, that they are neither different, nor wiser. They numb the pain through drugs and alcohol and pills and haven't found any answer to what bugs all people. - But life should be different. Even after knowing about quants and quarks, light-years and dimensions, after reading Schrödinger or look at Picassos paintings, we should know that something isn't right. That life should reflect it. There are too many, who, after wonderfully challenging speeches go home and beat their children. Or mistreat their aging parents. - There is a difference. But it is hard to find. It is in Jesus. Sometimes it seems, all that this could be for humanity has been forgotten. If it was ever known. Would a God, who chose the well known and too often clicheed crib, a dirty place full of bugs and fleas and bad smells as birth place for a special child by a single, virgin mother. That should tell mankind something. That there has to be a difference. Life has to be different, where God is the center of it. Have you found the difference? I please myself in thinking I have grasped its hem..... still a long way to go..... to heaven, which will be a very different place. Are you ready?

Hebrews 11:13 ... they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

The bird again. Have you ever felt like running against walls where a door was supposed to be? As if somebody had removed it, laughing like mad at your confusion and pain? Have you ever done a thing you thought great and good and got nothing but trouble out of it?

What do you do? Praise God, for if it truly was a good thing, the recompense coming from God will be even greater, where this world despises it? Thank God for the adversity? For the impenetrable walls that seem to leave no way out? Like a nightmare or a horror movie, where what is good is mocked to praise the evil deed? This world is - and should be a nightmare - for God's true children. Welcome to heaven. This world will hate the smell of it with fury and call it bad names. 

It'll help get closer to God. Promise.