The movie K-PAX ends with the main character surmising that a person in a catatonic state may be able to hear everything that is said, but remain unwilling or unable to respond. He does not see that he describes himself.
I am standing on my porch beneath a cloud-covered moon. There is darkness and haze about. I've been working on something called cloud hands - a sideward stepping, rotating move that would deflect strikes.
The past two days have found me pondering how we can take Jesus at anything less than his word. Am I the only one who finds this a monstrous task? Am I the only one who reads his words and says to myself, "yes, but he must account for..." I believe that every "but" or "and" added to his words amounts to an obstruction of the light he was shining. His words must be taken at face value, or what are they? I don't want to hear commentaries, inauthenticity, or half-hearted testimonies. I want to see the man who can wield the ax Christ has brought. Perhaps it's time to seek the Trappists. For 9 or 10 years, I have been thinking of going to them. I respected advice not to go as a young man, but my desire persists.
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Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew 6:25-34)
