waiting for hard times to end is zero fun but verses like these two from Psalm 62 are guiding lights when life is most dark. God is my salvation, my glory, my mighty rock, and my refuge.

when life is most hard, most dark, most lonely God is still there. still my refuge, still my rock, still my glory, still my salvation and so much more.

“I fear thou dost not love me, that thou hast forsaken me, because I know I deserve not to be beloved. These thoughts are hard as hell, they give no rest to my soul.”

CS Lewis is certainly correct that those who are willing to seek knowledge in unfavorable conditions are the ones who achieve more. Hard work, as it turns out, tends to pay off. But Lewis was a Christian and as such we may find more in this quote than just his encouragement to pursue knowledge regardless of the conditions you find yourself in.

With the latest update to Things 3, version 3.17 to be precise, users have been given what feels like super powers to automate a crazy amount of the ways they use Things thanks to the wonderful integrations with Shortcuts that the fine folks at Cultured Code have introduced. It was enough for me to scrap my previous system, which I explained on episode 63 of Inner Dialogue.

‘Heroes’ by Ben Rector is a great song. It showcases a distinct vulnerability of longing for simpler times, when the world was small, when we were still young, and when we had all the answers….before we came into intimate knowledge of the myriad ways the world would break our hearts.

I'm reading ‘why we are restless’ by Storey and Storey, which I highly recommend for any one interested in understanding the philosophical and cultural changes over the past few hundred years that have built the modern framework we find ourselves in today, in modern America.

I had the privilege to co-lead an 8-week study of the book of Acts at my church recently and now that it has concluded, I thought it could be helpful to share the slide deck and speaking notes here.

A while back (April 12, 2021!!) I was frustrated with myself and how I was spending my time, so I wrote down this set of questions:

• How do I determine what is worth my time?

• What is worth my time?

• What is not worth my time?

• What is my time budget?

• How will these changes be accomplished?

Last night, June 20, 2022, I finally sat down and answered them.

In an effort to more consistently remind myself of the truth found in the Bible I made a Shortcut for my iPhone and iPad that will show me a randomly selected Bible verse from a set of verses that I have provided. It’s pretty cool.