Times within times

today there are at least 4 generations of culture in the U.S. You probably know them: builders, boomers, busters, and millenials. Of course, there are variations on each of these themes here and around the world there are more variations than we can probably imagine. Like a kalidescope of humanity we are swirling around in space occupying place each having face, grace, pace at which we are moving in our earthly dance. Often we believe only in our generation finding the gap between us like a canyon of immense distance, feeling unable and unwilling to span the difference by recognizing the likeness of our encounter with the is we face, reacting so differently to the absolutes and the relatives of what is around us and within us. There is a true center that embraces all the generations and makes way for the oneness that is ours, that is real. He is the true center. He is Jesus.

What's in a name?

Kairos - time - not the passing of the clock time, but, the times of note - real time as given significance by events that unfold in our lives and in the world;
Ichabod- the glory departed - a name that describes the undoing of a dream, a kingdom, a nation, a people, even of an individual - that which once was great now diminished by the choices, actions, direction taken by those from whom this said glory is departed
Times - now!
We live in a time when the glory of the people created is being diminished by the same said people through their denial of their origins, source of being and meaning, of purpose of existence, of direction of journey - by their denial of their Creator in exchange for an arrogant promotion of selfism that leads to nothingness in everything.