Blame

Fault Lines

by Andy Wood on March 22, 2009

in Enlarging Your Capacity, Insight, Life Currency, Love, LV Cycle, Principle of Legacy

san-andreas-faultI don’t know geology, but I know generally what they’re talking about when they use the word, “fault.”  Somewhere deep in the foundations of the earth are places where cracks produce shifts at times in the earth’s foundation.  We experience them as earthquakes.  Destructive and deadly, they leave scars on lives and landscapes that time alone doesn’t fix.  All the result of faults that,  may have seemed nonexistent a day earlier.

Faults show up in the Bible, too.  “Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other,” James says, “so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous man has great power and wonderful results” (James 5:16, LB).  First thing I notice is that even “righteous men” have faults.  And who better to pray for our faults than someone who is painfully aware of their own?

Of course, we have other names for faults… character flaws, weaknesses, besetting sins, vices.  [click to continue…]

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Are You Living in the Land of Nod?

by Andy Wood on February 4, 2009

in Life Currency, Love

broken-homePreston is about 14 months old; his future is literally wide open in front of him.  But even as young as he is, he already is feeling the effects of a broken home.  He didn’t ask for it, but for the rest of his life he’ll be living in the Land of Nod.

Gina grew up in the perfect family – at least that’s what everyone believed.  But they didn’t hear the verbal and occasional physical abuse Gina suffered growing up.  Very few understand the strange combination of anger and shyness that marks her personality today.  But the long trail of disrupted friendships and broken romances tell the painful story.  Gina is living in the land of Nod.

In the aftermath of history’s first broken relationship, the Bible says that Cain “went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the Land of Nod, on the East of Eden” (Genesis 4:16).  As a race, we’ve been living in the aftermath of broken relationships – in the Land of Nod – ever since.

Are We Still That Clueless?

It’s amazing.  Thousands of years of history have passed, and we’ve learned an awful lot.  These days the knowledge available to the world doubles at rates we measure by minutes rather than centuries.  What’s more amazing to me, however, is what we have yet to learn. [click to continue…]

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