Randy, a friend and peer in ministry, offered up a couple of quotes that are what I call, “words to ponder”.\u00a0 You’ve heard words that make you pause or make you go, “hmmm.”\u00a0 Well, here are two sets of words that do that for me which Randy shared during a meeting earlier this month with a group of our friends and peers.<\/p>\n
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it and change it as times change, truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts.”\u00a0 Salman Rushdie<\/p>\n
Lyrics from, “Head Full of Doubt \/ Road Full of Promise”
\nThe Avette Brothers, 2009
\nThere\u2019s a darkness upon me that\u2019s flooded in light
\nIn the fine print they tell me what\u2019s wrong and what\u2019s right
\nAnd it comes in black and it comes in white
\nAnd I\u2019m frightened by those that don\u2019t see it<\/p>\nWhen nothing is owed or deserved or expected
\nAnd your life doesn\u2019t change by the man that\u2019s elected
\nIf you\u2019re loved by someone, you\u2019re never rejected
\nDecide what to be and go be it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randy, a friend and peer in ministry, offered up a couple of quotes that are what I call, “words to ponder”.\u00a0 You’ve heard words that make you pause or make you go, “hmmm.”\u00a0 Well, here are two sets of words that do that for me which Randy shared during a meeting earlier this month with… Continue Reading Words to Ponder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-doc-thoughts","category-theological-rant","category-youth-ministry","radius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4byX4-9p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davisonsdoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davisonsdoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davisonsdoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davisonsdoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davisonsdoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davisonsdoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davisonsdoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davisonsdoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davisonsdoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}