DISQUS

I'll take Lisbon over FriendFeed anytime.

Thanks for your generous compliments Sam. Very kind of you.

Cool profile. Thanks for the link Mark.

I wonder about the "double life" idea though. I'm with Luther in believing that ALL legitimate (legal, etc.) work is glorifying to God, and under his calling. Can't find it right now, but he was famously quoted somewhere as saying that there is no difference in the "holiness" or "calling" of the shoe cobbler than that of the minister of the Gospel. If done to the best of one's ability, and for him, both are equally honoring to God and the Kingdom.

Then again, maybe I've misread the writer's intent.

Thanks Marcus. (Tried to leave this yesterday but didn't get through...)

Thank you Mark.

I'm thinking you're too good to me brother.

I think it was Aquinas on his deathbed, "Everything I have written is straw", or something like that... I am too young and arrogant to completely understand this wisdom, but I get it somehow.

I'm not sure we disagree here Mark, I think maybe my head is mud.

In that poem, I would have included (sometimes to the exclusion of anything else) time with daughter, wife, meditation, prayer, study, beer, etc. (ie., whatever your hand finds to do in life at any given moment)...

Time spent with our children is the big leagues

Time spent fixing the toilet is the big leagues

Time spent loving our wives (though imperfectly) is the big leagues

Time spent face down before the Great King is the big leagues

And yes, time spent writing a little poem is the big leagues

Degrees of importance are laced throughout that list... uh-huh. But when my hand is at any one of them, in that moment, I am responsible for it.

Anyway, thanks for this, you give good edit my friend. And good debate.

Lemme know...

"...because he was trying to get rich"

You're right. What the hell happened to craft?

The preciousness surrounding our craft can be unbelievable at times... you're right.

I'll take the Paul and run with it... nice connection there.