WLJ wk2: 10-10-10

OCT 10 - OCT 16 2010 —  WLJ week 2: 10-10-10  — ISSUE 175

I've done 'C's in honor and response to a lot of things over the last few years, but this may be the first I've done simply because I couldn't waste the date. Not the significance of the day, but the numerical alignment itself. Yes, today is October tenth, 2010. Or, as I prefer to write it, 10/10/10. Cool, right?

Well, at least I think it's cool. 'Course, I also laughed uncontrollably when I heard a political commercial for one representative responding to a mudslinging ad by another not by slinging back, but by simply clarifying their record and then ending the ad by saying, I kid you not, "Shame on you [accusing candidates name], shame on you."  Makes me wonder if their next ad will end with "Now go to your room and think about what you've done." That sort of commercial makes me want to declare residency in another state just to vote for them.

This is the second week of our campaign month, and we're now moving into Mark. But, in reference to the date, I'd like to present ten (out of pages and pages of notes) snippets that gut checked me this week from the book of Matthew. Feel free to check out the entire context, and I hope your reading has yielded fantastically deep quiet times as well. In order of appearance:

1) Matthew 6:8 "...your Father knows what you need before you ask Him."

2) Matthew 6:22-23 "...If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"

3) Matthew 6:25 "...Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?"

4) Matthew 6:27 "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"

5) Matthew 7:1-5 "...in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

6) Matthew 9:10-13 "...go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’"

7) Matthew 9:36-38 "But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd."

8) Mathew 10:5-10 "...a worker is worthy of his food."

9) Matthew 10:16 "...be wise as serpents and harmless as doves."

10) Matthew 12:39-42 "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign..."

Brett "I wish someone would send me to my room to think about what I've done so I could take a nap" Hibbler