I suffer from the absence of discussion.

So many people hold their view, opinion, ideology as their highest priority. Too few want to grow their character, learn something new or connect to the vitality of another person’s experience.

Beware of all labels, but people who are politically right wing or left wing, spiritually fundamentalist or modernist, socially libertarian or authoritarian, define discussion as aggressively demanding agreement with their view and humiliating those who do not acquiesce.

Oh! for more people who do not hide behind personal ideology, but want to search for a better idea, indeed truth, even when it means re-examining their finite world.

I live on the open plain, yet when I encounter people like I am describing above they fill their moat, barricade their gates and fire volley after volley of fiery darts even though I carry the white flag of truce.

Thank you God for Your listening ear, gentle correction, and patience as I search for greater truth and framing my heart to accept people, all people, (even those with a closed mind!).

There’s something about spiders that I do not understand.

At several places around our house webs appear everyday, no matter how often we walk through them or deliberately remove them. Why don’t they give up after a week or so?

But that’s not what I’m wondering about. Some webs stretch across a gap of over two meters (over six feet for those non-metric folk).

That’s what I don’t understand. How do they know that across a vast space is another pillar or hedge or bush on which they can anchor the opposite side of their web?

Do they have super-eyesight? Do they just wander aimlessly until they find a place to hook on and then remember it once they find it?

The other thing is, how does such a tiny creature produce that much webbing, over and over?

“For we live by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7 God’s Word Translation©).