What a weekend!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2025

Ken Pullen

ACP

I began this on Monday. I wrote a bit, saved it, and when I came back to resume and finish the piece, it had disappeared completely.

Like some bad magic trick.

Trouble in River City with a Capital T…

So, I had to get in touch with the guy who knows how to find and fix such things. As of 11:30 today, all is well again. All was well, with my soul, as all this was happening, but the wonderful world of today’s technology — as we were told, brainwashed — to “make life easier,” certainly has once again proved to make matters more difficult than they were 50 years ago.

So, the weekend.

Last Friday, I wrote a short piece titled Unless. A result of my being too focused on self, numbers, feeling unappreciated, and not focusing, having it all be about Jesus. Not me. Not how many people are subscribers or visit regularly.

Then, Friday evening, watching and listening to Marty Goetz and his lovely wife, Jennifer, on House of Worship. Then, on Saturday, I watched and listened to some videos presented by faithful, sound men and women of God, true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach. On Sunday, I heard pastor Jack Hibbs speak at Calvary Chapel Boston, and what he said.

When we pause, are silent ourselves, listen, seek out sound teachings, the full word of God, and allow the words to refine us, hone us, sharpen us and we can be ruthlessly honest about our weaknesses, our sin, our shortcomings, our being wrong and we permit the Lord to speak to us through others who are sound in their doctrine, because their doctrine is the word of God? All of it? Boldly?

Well, one can go from an internal sourness made of their own stupid doing, focused on something not eternal, not really all that important, to seeing better, hearing more clearly.

It is only through trials, suffering, troubles, tribulations that we truly grow closer in our spiritual lives, our spirtual understanding, and in our walk to be closer to the Lord.

Don’t seek them or create them. As Jesus tells us, every day has its own troubles. We don’t need to seek them or create them. They will happen. No problem there.

It’s what we do internally, in our hearts and minds, to be revealed externally that matters, eternally, and in every moment of this life from that moment forward — not forgetting, not falling back, not becoming complacent again.

Oh, what a weekend!

From sourness to sweetness, from being confined, chained in a small, tight, self-centered place to being freed, opened, alive, breathing the air of life in from others speaking the word of God through the air into my heart, my spirit, my soul, my mind!

Let’s get on with things, the truly important things, shall we?

Maranatha.

Shalom.