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Not even William Shatner could have negotiated a better stock price for Priceline.
Shares of the online travel site -- most famous for those amusing ads with the original Captain Kirk -- are currently trading at about $930. That's not a misprint. And with earnings due out Thursday afternoon, it's not implausible to suggest that Priceline (PCLN) could top $1,000 if its results and guidance are strong.
Priceline might get to four digits before Google (GOOG). Google's shares are hovering just below $900 ... and the company may finally complete its convoluted stock split before it ever reaches $1,000.
Priceline has been on an amazing ride for the past few years. The stock sunk as low as $45.15 a share in October 2008. So it's up nearly 2,000% since then. Not too shabby, huh?
What makes the approaching $1,000 milestone even more miraculous is that the stock is getting close to its all-time high of around $990 a share (adjusted for a 1-6 reverse stock split) from April 1999. That was shortly after the company went public.
It's stunning that Priceline is still around. Reverse stock splits are usually a sign of desperation from a company in serious distress.
Why has Priceline done this well? It's all about the fundamentals. Earnings have grown more than 50% a year, on average, for the past five years. Analysts expect Priceline to post an earnings increase of about 20% for the second quarter when it reports Thursday.
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The company has become the clear leader in online travel, easily outpacing the likes of Expedia (EXPE), Orbitz (OWW), TripAdvisor (TRIP) and Travelzoo (TZOO). Priceline augmented its position as the king of the industry earlier this year with its purchase of travel software firm Kayak.
"A lot of people don't understand or appreciate what Priceline has accomplished over the past decade or so," said Scott Kessler, an equity analyst with S&P Capital IQ. "This is one of the few companies that survived the dot-com bust of 2000 and is doing even better." You could argue that Amazon (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY) fit that bill too.
But is Priceline overpriced? Is this a repeat of the dot-com insanity in 1999 and early 2000? It doesn't look that way.
Priceline is trading for less than 20 times 2014 earnings estimates. That's not dollar-store cheap but it's not a ludicrous Neiman Marcus Christmas Book price either. (Check out the $90,000 arcade system on page 66.) The stock is more expensive than Expedia but it's trading at a discount to Orbitz, TripAdvisor and Travelzoo.
And when you look ahead, Priceline should have some clearer skies (travel pun intended) ahead of it. It's hard to imagine that demand for flights and hotels is going to suddenly take a turn for the worse. The U.S. economy is continuing to slowly improve. What's more, the European economy is showing signs that it may finally have bottomed. If that's true, that's fantastic news for Priceline.
Related: Italy signals end to eurozone recession
The company's Booking.com unit has heavy exposure to Europe and shares of Priceline have been whipped around a bit over the past few years due to concerns about the eurozone debt crisis. (Booking.com has also started to advertise more aggressively in the U.S. as well ... albeit without the Shat and "The Big Bang Theory's" Kaley Cuoco.)
And in a mid-year report from money management firm Friess Associates, which owns a big stake in Priceline in both its Brandywine (BRWIX) and Brandywine Blue (BLUEX) mutual funds, analysts noted that Priceline has "an especially appealing opportunity" to expand in Asia through its Agoda subsidiary.
If anything, I think the bigger risk for Priceline is not that the company's growth will start to slow. It's that expectations are so high, not even a solid earnings beat may be enough to keep investors satisfied.
Consider this. Wall Street analysts expect Priceline to report earnings per share of $9.38 for the second quarter. If Priceline merely meets that, it may be viewed as a disappointment. The consensus over at Estimize, a site that crowdsources earnings and sales forecasts from a wider group of investors (including hedge funds and other buy-side professionals) is a touch higher, at $9.57.
But even if Priceline gets dinged in the short-term for failing to live up to the considerable hype, the stock still looks like a winner for the long-term. As I've been fond of saying for nearly three years now ... Don't short the Shat!
If Priceline (PCLN) could name its own stock price, it would probably take this one. Shares of the online travel company hit a 52-week high Monday, jumping 3% after Priceline received an upgrade from Morgan Stanley's analysts.
Morgan Stanley's analysts think Priceline's shares, currently trading around $880, can hit $1,010 as competition in the space declines. They also expect that Priceline has increased its market share of European travel.
Should Priceline's shares follow Morgan Stanley's predictions, shares MOREMaureen Farrell - Jul 8, 2013 1:55 PM ET
Raise your hand if you thought that Priceline (PCLN) shares would be falling Friday. I did.
The online travel stock has been red hot this year. And even though it reported strong first-quarter earnings after the bell Thursday, its outlook was a bit conservative. The stock dipped after hours Thursday as MOREPaul R. La Monica - May 10, 2013 12:42 PM ET
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If you were planning on hibernating this winter in the stacks at Fort Wayne, Ind.'s Allen County Public Library, you may have to postpone your trip. The main library's Historical Genealogy Department closed Dec. 14, 2002, and will remain closed the entire month of January 2003. The library is undergoing an $18.5 million renovation that will expand the facility and make improvements to the current building. Renaissance Square in downtown Fort Wayne will house the library and its valuable genealogy collection for about three years while construction is being completed.
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Many Fayette residents were familiar with the late Vivien Ford, known as the community's official historian.
A collection of her historical records is now available for viewing at Normal Memorial Library through the recent donation of three albums created by her daughter, Kathleen Fix.
The collection includes a comprehensive timeline of Fayette history.
"The document is about 30 pages long and is still growing," Fix said.
There are numerous other documents on the history of Gorham Township, the history of Fayette, the Normal University, the Fayette Opera House, the Fayette Area Schools, a family history document based on Vivien Ford's final diary, collections of copies of photos and articles from the local newspapers and from books.
The albums include photos and articles about the early history of the town, the people, homes, fire department, railroads and other transportation in and around Fayette and Harrison Lake State Park.
Ford wrote several documents about the history of the town in her book, "The First 100 Years," and she provided information for various news articles from local newspapers. She also wrote about the Fayette Opera House and the Allen family. The documents were transcribed onto a computer.
Ford's collection was compiled into 10 albums located at her home. The three albums donated to the library represent a compilation of the 10.
"Through research, we are obtaining a much greater understanding of historical Fayette," Fix said. "For example, we now have more than one source for Fayette's incorporation in 1873, thanks to the deed records, presented by Dale Pfund, of Fayette's hardware store.
"We have a collection of obituaries that gives us a microscopic look into the lives of early Fayette citizens, thanks to Grace Sly's gift of old obituaries to the Fayette Historical Society."
Obituaries tell a lot about the village's past citizens, Fix said.
People have stories to tell and Fix enjoys hearing the stories shared.
"Learning about our shared past gives us hope for all the tomorrows of Fayette" she said. "Perhaps we can build a future by keeping our past alive."
She envisions a downtown Fayette with a museum and gift shop, several antique shops, and an old parlor style ice cream emporium.
"Fayette needs a committed effort to advertise our positive aspects that would foster new businesses and industry in Fayette," Fix said.
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An Ohio Department of Health spokeswoman said Wednesday that one case has been reported in the state. Spokeswoman Tessie Pollock says a 63-year-old Lucas County woman in northwest Ohio was sickened by the bug. No other information on the woman was available from state or Toledo-Lucas County Health Department officials.
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My latest vegan muffin recipe is a tender, fragrant strawberry banana treat. And they just so happen to be wheat-free, dairy-free and egg-free.
June is sexy gorgeous here in northern New Mexico. The sun is just the right amount of hot. The sky is flawless cobalt blue. The morning shade is deliciously cool. The mockingbirds sing their magic in the junipers. And the strawberries at the market are drop dead ripe. If fruit is love, it must be a strawberry- red and juicy and flirtatious.
And if I was so inclined I would wax voluptuous, like a cheap romance novel. I would detail every lip licking moment in my big strawberry love. How I crush and whip them into smoothies. Churn them into dairy-free sherbet. Bake them into golden scones. Macerate them in orange infused liqueur. And stir them slowly into sticky banana muffin batter.
In fact, I would flaunt my muffins.
I would pen sentences to make you giddy and weak kneed with berry desire. I would spin words to make you salivate, even drool. I would tug at your longing and tease you until you begged me to stop torturing you. You would be breathless by then. And become a flirt yourself, batting your silky virtual eyelashes to Please, may I come over? You would arrive at my pink casita door flushed and willing and eager to sink your pearly whites into this tender vegan goodness.
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Vegan Strawberry Banana Muffin Recipe
Make sure your berries are ripe and sweet. That goes for your bananas, too. You want them fragrant and soft, as they provide much of the sweetness in this low sugar treat. (Note- these are egg-free and vegan- more akin to a whole grain muffin than a cakey white flour and sugar cupcake- just sayin'.)
1 cup banana puree (3 medium bananas)
1/3 cup organic coconut or canola oil or grapeseed oil
1/3 cup non-dairy milk
1/2 cup packed organic light brown sugar
2 teaspoons bourbon vanilla extract
Ener-G Egg Replacer for 2 eggs mixed (or use two free-range organic eggs)
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1/2 cup millet flour or buckwheat flour
1/2 cup almond flour or brown rice flour
1/4 cup potato starch (not potato flour) or tapioca starch
1/4 cup potato starch (not potato flour) or tapioca starch
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 1/2 cups sliced fresh organic strawberries, rinsed and patted dry
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Line a 12-muffin pan with paper liners.
In a mixing bowl beat together the banana puree, oil, rice milk, brown sugar, vanilla and egg replacer (or eggs).
Add the flours, starch, xanthan gum, sea salt, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir until well combined. If the batter is stiff add a tablespoon of rice milk at a time to achieve a lighter, somewhat sticky batter.
Add in the strawberries by hand and stir gently.
Drop by spoonfuls into the prepared muffin cups.
Bake in the center of a preheated oven until they are done in the center- roughly 22 to 25 minutes. Test for wetness with a wooden pick. Muffins should be domed and firm to a light touch.
The most important tip I've found when baking gluten-free muffins and cupcakes is to remove them from the pan to cool, as soon as you can. The longer they stay in the muffin pan the longer they steam. And we know what steam does to bottoms. That's right. And we hate our soggy bottoms, now, don't we?
Cool on a wire rack. Eat warm or cool, or whichever way warms the cockles of your sweet little heart.
Makes 12 muffins.
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If you eat eggs, you can use two large eggs in this recipe instead of the vegan egg replacer.
If the batter is too stiff, add a tablespoon or two of non-dairy milk to thin a bit.If your berries are less than sweet you can always add a little more sugar to the recipe to compensate.
Remember cold or wet berries affect baking time.Dry the berries off and use them at room temp.
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There are three major differences between trial-level courts and appellate-level courts:
Trial courts are the courts where cases start. In the trial court, both sides present evidence to show their version of what happened. Most of the evidence presented in the trial court comes from witnesses (people who answer questions relating to the case) and exhibits (items and documents connected to the case, such as pictures, clothes, weapons, papers, etc.). However, in the appellate courts, there are no witnesses, and no evidence is presented. In appellate courts, the lawyers simply argue legal and policy issues before the judge or a group of judges. In the trial courts, the lawyers present evidence and legal arguments to persuade the jury in a jury trial or the judge in a bench trial.
The second difference between the two courts is the judges. In trial courts, there is one judge in the courtroom. That judge decides what evidence can and cannot be used and often decides the outcome of the case. In Indiana, appeals are decided by more then one judge. In Court of Appeals cases, there are five groups of three judges, and in the Supreme Court, there is one group of five justices. The Indiana Tax Court is the exception; there is only one judge.
The last major difference between the trial courts and the appellate courts is the role of the jury. A jury is a group of citizens who listen to the facts and make decisions about the case. A jury is sometimes used in trial courts to help decide the case. In a criminal trial, the jury decides whether a person is guilty or not guilty. A criminal trial involves the government (the state of Indiana, for example) bringing charges against someone who committed a crime, such as robbery, murder, or drunk driving. In a civil trial, the jury decides whether a person is liable (legally responsible for damages) or not liable (not responsible). Individuals or companies who cannot settle a dispute file a document called a complaint to start a civil trial. Divorce, car accidents, and traffic violations are some of the most common types of civil cases. There can be a jury in either a civil or criminal trial. However, there is no jury in the appellate courts. Appellate judges determine the outcome of all appeals.
A big misunderstanding about the appellate courts is that they simply rehear the case over again, evidence and all. But the truth is that appellate courts do not rehear the facts of the case. Appellate courts focus on questions of law, NOT on questions of facts like the trial courts. The appellate judges want to know whether the law was applied accurately.
The appellate court overrules a trial court decision only if a very important legal error was made in the trial court. In some cases, the appellate court judges might believe that the outcome of the trial court should have been different, but if no legal errors were made, they will not overrule the lower court. The appellate judges make their decisions based only on legal arguments of how the law should be applied and interpreted.
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- 2006 16 May
Editor's Note: This interview originally ran on May 8, 2006. We run it again today in conjuction with the release (and corresponding new interview with Miller) of A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Click the link to read the new interview.
The latest offering from the increasingly-popular scribe of "Blue Like Jazz" and "Searching for God Knows What" is titled "To Own a Dragon - Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father." In it, Donald Miller, co-writing with friend, mentor, and father figure John MacMurray, spares us none of the wounds he received growing up trying to define his place in this world without the guidance of a male parent.
Miller weaves his story around his experiences living with the MacMurray family in his 20s, and relates the lessons he gathered watching a real father in action for the first time in his life to obstacles he's overcome and struggles he still has.
Recently, Miller took the time to chat it up with Crosswalk.com about men, manliness, prison, men, his writing style, guys, The Discovery Channel, dudes, compulsive habits, book covers, and did I mention… men?
Crosswalk.com: I just finished reading "To Own a Dragon," and got a lot out of it. Congratulations on another success there.
Donald Miller: Thanks!
CW: Even though in "To Own a Dragon" you speak directly to an audience of the fatherless, the text still spoke as relevantly to me (I had a very good father and I like to think I'm a good father) as your "Blue Like Jazz" or male-focused books like "Wild at Heart." Why do you think even guys who had positive role models as fathers still take so much from this book?
Miller: I think the message is just the same, regardless of how great our father was. We still have to transition to God being our father, and it's also just basic wisdom. In our culture we're just inundated with bad advice all the time, so there's a benefit to having basic life wisdom just crash through, and in saying here's how it really works, and I think that's a part of it.
CW: There is a lot of personal life wisdom in "To Own a Dragon"; was it difficult to write about such a painful subject? And as you wrote did you ever struggle with feelings of animosity toward young Chris MacMurray or other guys with great fathers?
Miller: There's no doubt about it, I absolutely did, which is a weird thing if you think about it. Here I move into the family, I'm in my 20s, it's the first time I've ever seen a family with a father in the home, and I'm jealous of the three-year-old kid because I wanted somebody to be a father figure to me. I wanted somebody to be there and care but there wasn't. Then there was animosity, there was anger, there was hostility, all were issues that I tried to work through, or had to work through. It was either live in frustration or work through those issues.
CW: It was well detailed how you actually worked through that. The book concludes with the idea of being a "wounded healer." How do you hope that you and others who have been hurt by fatherly neglect can become wounded healers?
Miller: Well, Desmond Tutu talks about taking somebody from arrogant victim to wounded healer. This [progression] cannot be accomplished except through a deeply-rooted spiritual life. So what I think is involved is faith in God, and submission to God. To say, "God please move from me arrogant victim to wounded healer - I need to be healed." And the process begins. Inviting God into that journey is the first step, and then surrounding yourself with a group of people who can help you, who can mentor you.
CW: Do you think any man can become a wounded healer? And what advice would you give a man who feels unqualified to heal or mentor?
Miller: I think any man can become a wounded healer, especially guys who grew up without dads. So much of my story is about not knowing. I remember believing - in my senior year of high school - actually believing that I was stupid, that my brain didn't work as well as other people's brains worked. And it wasn't until I had a teacher who basically pointed out that I was intelligent (I had written an article) that I learned I was a good writer. In other words, it wasn't until somebody outside myself said hey, you're intelligent, that I could actually believe that. So I began reading, and of course that's what I do today, I read and think and pray. But it took somebody else telling me. So I think there are people who think, "Oh, I could never lead, I could never [mentor]," but that's not true, it's really not true, and what we need to do is step in and give affirmation and keep moving forward. If we act "as if," sometimes the "as if" becomes true; you just have to keep doing that in faith. So yes, any broken man can become a wounded healer. No matter how badly you're broken, God can use you to heal other people's lives, whether you know it or not.
CW: Regarding feelings of stupidity or worthlessness, you admit in the book that you still sometimes struggle with thinking your words are "just going to be another burden on the world's library."
Miller: It's always something that you fight, but more and more I'm trying to just get over that, and say this is an ability that to some degree God has given me, and use the opportunity that God has given me. I need to stand up and I need to use it, and receive what He's given.
CW: Your previous answer about qualification reminds me of a Christian camp director who was fond of saying that God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. To use your terms, you might not even know you're in a situation to be a healer or mentor. I just find that very interesting that you would say you may not even know you're doing it.
Miller: I know, there's no question. We're having a dramatic effect on each other's lives and we have no idea that we really are. Aren't the people who have affected our lives the ones who have the most confidence that what they say and do matters? The people who have the confidence to come to us and say, "Hey, you did a great job and I'm proud of you"? Those are the people who have the most dramatic effect on our lives. But if you think about it from our perspective, we always say, "No, no, we wouldn't dare, and who am I to say I'm proud of somebody?" We need to get over that and realize that what we say matters, and we need to own that responsibility. We need to affirm people and speak into their lives.
CW: If that doesn't happen, do you think there are life lessons or self-beliefs that a boy just won't get without a father? If so, which ones?
Miller: The biggest one is that he is affirmed and loved. Not going to learn that without a dad. Probably not going to learn it well without a mom, for that matter. It's just a necessary component of upbringing to our well-being, to have a father say, "You're loved, I love you, I care about you." I long for that every day. I wish I had a dad who would say that. I'm 34, and I still want that. It's not going to go away. There are other people who do that in our lives and that's great, and everybody walks around with some sort of pain, some sort of wound, so I'm not playing the victim card here, but that's the big one.
Then there are all sorts of lessons that we see, like the 85 percent of guys in prison who grew up without fathers. 85 percent. That's an enormous percentage, and those are the ones who had no father in their home. If you think about the ones who had a bad father, you're up over 95 percent. Only about 1 percent of all the men in prison had good father figures in their homes. That means if every father in America didn't leave his family and cared about his kids, our prison population would be about 1 percent of what it is now. This is an enormous issue!
So yeah, there are things you will not learn unless you have a father in your home. That said, it's not a hopeless case. I didn't have a father in my home, and I write books, have a great life, teach at a school, interact with people, have good friends. But that's because there were mentors in my life that taught me certain things. What I wanted to do with this book was go through what I had to learn elsewhere having grown up without a father. I missed out on so much, from how to deal with money, to how to make decisions, to how to talk to and engage a woman.
CW: Speaking of affirmation, in "To Own a Dragon," you use a humorous story to make a strong case for what defines a "real man." By offering a definition that, shall we say, is simply based in anatomy, are you opening yourself up to criticism that an overly-simple definition might undervalue cultural rites of passage that help boys slowly evolve into men?
Miller: I may be opening myself up to criticism, but that criticism is based on people not having read the entire chapter. In it I basically qualify by saying look, if you have the right "equipment," God has decided that you are a man. Now, you may not be a good man [yet], but you are a man, which means you have what it takes to go through these rites of passage. God has decided, and don't let anybody tell you differently.
CW: It sounds like from your perspective and that of your intended audience that this is a message many young men might not have gotten.
Miller: The message I got growing up in the church was that I was not a man. It was constantly, "A real man cares for his wife and kids." Well what if I'm afraid of intimacy with women? (Laughs) Am I not a real man? I have no ability to even get there! Nobody came to me and said, "Hey, Don, you know you're a real man - you absolutely have what it takes. Let me teach you how to do this, or let me teach you the right perspective." It was, "Unless you can jump this high, you are not a real man." Well, no father ever taught me to jump that high, so I must not be a real man. That's the assumption that I lived under and it wasn't until my late 20s that I thought this can't possibly be true. I'm a real man; God says I'm a real man. And I stopped living under the shadow of the thought that I wasn't.
It's rare to go to any sort of men's retreat or men's camp or men's anything, or even hear a man talk about manhood, and not have it said that "a real man does [x]." I can get people to do anything I want, for example, just by announcing, "A real man will come over and mow my lawn." Out of group of 100, you'd probably get at least three guys to come over and mow your lawn because they want to be a real man. We believe it's a motivating thing to say, but unfortunately it's not motivation, it's manipulation.
CW: Earlier you brought up a very interesting statistic about prisons; can you talk about your efforts to take the message of "To Own a Dragon" into prisons and rehab centers, and have you visited a prison yet?
Miller: I haven't visited a prison yet, but one of the deals we made in publishing the book was that we would be able to make copies available to prison ministries. Then a beautiful thing happened. I had written a chapter that was sort of a rough draft, and then I rewrote it, getting it really finely honed, but the publisher accidentally printed about 45,000 copies with the rough draft chapter in it. Rather than throw those books away, we donated them to prisons. The book's only officially been out a couple of weeks, but already, thousands and thousands of copies have been distributed in prisons all over the country!
Our church then started a division called the Belmont Foundation - you can read about it at www.belmontfoundation.org - that's a mentoring program for young people growing up without fathers. Our goal is basically to sort of put a band-aid over their wounds, try to fix things a little bit.
CW: Isn't there also another branch extending help and support to single moms?
Miller: Yeah, that's the first year. We're going to try to take care of some of the needs of single moms, to decrease the amount of stress in their lives so that they can give more energy and time to their own children. We want to fix their washing machines, fix their cars, paint their houses. We want to provide them with educational seminars where we provide childcare and they can afford to take the day off to attend classes on meeting the specific demands of being a single mom. Basically, we just want to release some of the stress that's going on in their lives.
CW: Switching gears a bit here, Don, one thing that kind of astonishes me about your writing, especially from the perspective of biblical relevance, is how different it is from other works of Christian encouragement in that it's not just littered with scripture addresses - no distracting colons or parentheses - even though you often mention important Bible passages. Why leave the references out, and have you encountered any resistance or negativity about it?
Miller: I haven't encountered much. I just leave the references out; in fact I often will paraphrase without mentioning I just paraphrased scripture. The reason is because I read a lot of books with scripture references that either feel misplaced, or like that's not actually what the text was trying to do, or where I sense that the author has a point and is trying to use an ace card to say, "See? God agrees with me, here's the scripture reference." That's not an enormous percentage of the Christian books out there, but there are some that do that and I wanted to disassociate myself.
The other thing is if scripture has power, then it has power regardless of whether I put the reference in there or not. If it's true, it's true. As to putting the reference in, it's rarely about helping the reader. It's all about me, as in, "Look at me quoting scripture." I don't need that. The reader is either helped by it or not helped by it, and truth is just truth, regardless of whether we put a parenthetical reference in there or not. The interesting thing about the text itself is that - as we all know - before the Nicene council, there were no references at all. So are we really defending the Bible, or are we defending a numeric code by which we have dissected the Bible?
CW: Without scripture references your writing - I admit - comes across as less preachy and I think that's definitely a strength; you're able to just sit down and be honest. Kind of like how back in "Blue Light Jazz," you introduced us to a lesson from the animal kingdom regarding penguin sex, and now, in "To Own a Dragon," we learn about the mentoring habits of elephants. Are you planning on using any other great metaphors from the animal kingdom to explain spiritual truths?
Miller: (Laughs). No, I don't have any more right now; I'm sure some will come to me.
CW: I was wondering what inspired you to come up with those. Is it Discovery Channel viewing?
Miller: It is! I'm an Animal Planet/Discovery Channel junkie. I don't have cable in the house, but when I'm in a hotel or something I just get stuck on those channels. The great thing is that they feel like a documentary. You know, I went to a movie place last night and came home with three documentaries that were boring animal stuff, so yes, I'm just a junkie.
CW: Speaking of nature, did you consider using some of your co-author John's landscape photography for the book cover?
Miller: You know, we didn't just because it wouldn't have made sense with the title of the book. It would have made sense inside the book to show some of John's photography.
CW: So instead, you went with this, um, very interesting orange-tinted photograph of what I take to be a man's lips and beard. Who is this and why use this picture?
Miller: It's really funny, I get this question an awful lot since the book came out. I don't know who it is; it's just a stock photo and it was one of those things where we had gone through probably seven or eight covers trying to figure out what the cover should be, and we came across this one. We were literally sitting in a restaurant in Portland with about four or five covers lying on the table, and we asked the waitress to pick one. The one you see is the one she picked. But I like it, it's sort of rough, and really I wanted the book to appeal to guys who were in prison.
CW: Don, is there anything about "To Own a Dragon" that you're just waiting for somebody to ask you that you haven't gotten a chance to talk about yet?
Miller: That's a terrific question, but no, there isn't. I'm a pretty open guy, so I just tend to do it all in the book and I tend to forget that I've spilled it all there. Thanks for asking, though. I just really appreciate that you would be interested in what I wrote, that means a lot.
CW: In closing, I'd like to ask you to pick a number between 1 and 12 and we'll finish with a random query from The Book of Questions, get to know you a bit.
Miller: Let's do 12.
CW: Number 12 … "What are" - and feel free to "no comment" me on this - "your most compulsive habits and do you regularly struggle to break these habits?"
Miller: Oh, yeah ... compulsive habits. The most compulsive habit is food. I tend to write about it sometimes. It's such a weird topic in our culture that some people have mixed emotions about it. I actually lost about 90 pounds in the last two years.
CW: Oh my goodness, congratulations.
Miller: I've got about that much more to go, but yeah, it would be food. For Lent, I gave up Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. People laugh at that. Hey, man, I'm dead serious.
CW: Amen. It's a sacrifice.
Miller: It's a big deal. That's the big one. I'm getting a lot better at it.
To Own a Dragon released in February 2006 from NavPress.
Donald Miller is the founding director of The Belmont Foundation - an organization assisting single mothers and children growing up without fathers. He is author of the bestselling "Blue Like Jazz", "Searching for God Knows What", and "Through Painted Deserts." He travels extensively around North America as a popular conference and college speaker and lives in Portland, Oregon.


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Some of the dear sisters accompanied me to Flatbush, where I assisted in a bush meeting. The Lord met the people in great power, and I doubt not there are many souls in glory to-day praising God for that meeting.
From that place I went home to my father's house in Binghamton, N.Y. They were filled with joy to have me with them once more, after an absence of six years. As my mother embraced me, she exclaimed: "So you are a preacher, are you?" I replied: "So they say." "Well, Julia," said she, "when I first heard that you were a preacher, I said that I would rather hear you were dead." These words,
My stay in Binghamton was protracted several months. I held meetings in and around the town, to the acceptance of the people, and, I trust, to the glory of God. I felt perfectly satisfied, when the time came for me to leave, that my work was all for the Lord, and my soul was filled with joy and thankfulness for salvation. Before leaving, my parents decided to move to Boston, which they did soon after.
I left Binghamton the first of February, 1855, in company with he Rev. Henry Johnson and his wife, for Ithaca, N. Y., where I labored a short time. I met with some opposition from one of the A. M. E. Church trustees, He said a woman should not preach in the church. Beloved, the God we serve fights all our battles, and before I left the place that trustee was one of the most faithful at my meetings, and was very kind to assist me on my journey when I left Ithaca. I stopped one night at Owego, at Brother Loyd's and I also stopped for a short time at Onondaga, returned
March 7th I took the stage for Geneva, and, arriving late at night, went to a hotel. In the morning Brother Rosel Jeffrey took me to his house and left me with his wife. He was a zealous Christian, but she scoffed at religion, and laughed and made sport during family worship. I do not know, but hope that long ere this she has ceased to ridicule the cause or the followers of Christ. In the latter part of the day Brother Condell came and invited me to his house. I found his wife a pleasant Christian woman. Sabbath afternoon I held a meeting in Brother Condell's house. The colored people had a church which the whites had given them. It was a union church, to be occupied on alternate Sundays by the Methodists and Baptists.
According to arrangement, this Sunday evening was the time for the Methodists to
Monday evening I went with some of the sisters to the church, where there was a meeting for the purpose of forming a moral reform society.
After the meeting, Brother Condell asked the trustees if they had any objection to having me speak in the church the next evening. To this, Minister Monroe and another man--I had almost said a fiend in human shape--answered that they did not believe in women's preaching, and would not admit one in the church, striving hard to justify themselves from the Bible, which one of them held in his unholy hands.
I arose to speak, when Mr. Monroe interrupted me. After a few words I left the house.
"Well," said he, "I shall be in the pulpit at an early hour, and will not leave it though they break my head."
"Mr. Monroe," said I, "God can take you from the pulpit without breaking your head." At this he became very much excited, and raved as if he were a madman. For two hours he walked the floor, talking and reading all the time. I made him no reply and tried not to notice him, and finally he left me.'
At the proper time we went to the church. It was full, but everything was in confusion. Mr. Monroe was in the pulpit. I saw at once that God could not be glorified in the midst of such a pandemonium; so I withdrew at once. I was told they kept up the contention until after ten o'clock. Mr. Monroe tried hard to get our trustees to sat I should not preach in
As I was obliged to leave in a few days, to meet other appointments, our men procured a large house, where I held a meeting the next evening. All that attended were quiet and orderly; one man arose for prayers.
Dear sisters, who are in the evangelistic work now, you may think you have hard times; but let me tell you, I feel that the lion and lamb are lying down together, as compared with the state of things twenty-five or thirty years ago. Yes, yes; our God is marching on. Glory to his name!


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Angels: Built to win
ANAHEIM – It's great to be back in our park, back home. We got everything accomplished we needed to do in Arizona, and now it's time to get ready for the real thing. We're looking forward to seeing the Twins on Monday, so we can get this show started.
I know there's been a lot of attention focused on the guys we lost this winter – Chone Figgins, John Lackey, Vladimir Guerrero, Darren Oliver, Gary Matthews Jr. But that's the way the game is. Guys move on, and you adapt. We've made some great additions, and I'm really excited with the team we've put together here.
Of course, it hurts losing teammates who were friends. A guy like Figgy, he was a respected man in the clubhouse, a leadoff guy who scored more than 100 runs and saved a lot of runs with his glove. He played the game right. But he got a great deal in Seattle, just like I got a great deal here. I'm happy for Figgy, but he's on the other side now, and we'll compete against each other with everything we've got.
I've got a ton of confidence in Erick Aybar taking over as the leadoff man. He's a young guy with tremendous talent coming off a big year. And he can fly. He's going to be fun to watch on the bases. With another year of experience with his mentor, Bobby Abreu, Aybar should be even better.
Bobby's one of the best leaders in the game, and I'm so happy he's back. You could see his influence last year in how much Aybar and Kendry Morales and so many other guys improved during the season. Bobby even helped out veterans like Figgy and me in a big way by showing us how to be more disciplined and selective at the plate. Everyone learned from watching Bobby and listening to him.
Lackey was a bulldog, one of the reasons I wanted to come here, but he got a great deal in Boston. We signed Joel Pineiro to replace Lackey in the rotation, and I'm impressed with Pineiro. You've got to like a guy who throws strikes and keeps the ball down. He should get real deep in games with our defense behind him.
With Pineiro, Jered Weaver, Joe Saunders, Ervin Santana and Scott Kazmir, we've got five solid starters, five guys who will give us a chance to win every night. We're built to win with that rotation and with a deep bullpen. We've got some big arms out there, and this is Brian Fuentes' second year in the American League. That always helps, getting that first year to figure things out.
Hideki Matsui is the guy I call the Quiet Assassin. He's as clutch as they come, in a quiet way. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Hideki does in our lineup. He's a pro, like Bobby, and you can never have enough of those guys.
Morales was born to hit. I call him Captain Caveman and Bam-Bam. He's solid, strong and he always wants to use that stick and hit. And he's good down at first with the glove.
Hitting behind Aybar and Bobby, and in front of Hideki, Morales, Juan Rivera, Howard Kendrick, Brandon Wood, Mike Napoli and Jeff Mathis, Maicer Izturis. That's a lot of talent, a load of weapons.
Brandon Wood, his thing is to play defense and do his part. Let us have the pressure. That's why they're paying us. We just want him to relax and play. He's got it in him to hit at least 20 homers, with 70-plus RBIs. If he does that, he helps the team tremendously. The way he's played third base, he's been impressive.
Everybody knows what Izturis can do – pretty much whatever you need. He's versatile and clutch, the kind of guy every winning team needs. Kendrick is going to do some really big damage this year. He's my pick to click. I definitely feel he's one day going to win that batting title, if he can just stay healthy.
With the kind of talent we have in front of me and behind me, I should be in a good position to drive in runs and score a lot of runs. All I have to do is stay on the field.
I was on my way to my best season ever when I messed up my groin crashing into walls last year. I really feel good now – once I broke the scar tissue sliding this spring, I was good to go. I don't even think about the sports hernia surgery I had last winter anymore. I'm ready to get after it.
I think we're built to win the division. There's a reason why the Angels have won the AL West three years in a row and five of the past six. These guys know how to compete, how to win. I thought we had a great year last season, considering everything we went through losing Nick Adenhart. We'll never forget Nick, what he meant to us.
This team has a lot of heart. Our mission this season is to take it all the way. We can't wait to get started.
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Couldn't agree more with everything you said Torii, sad to see some great players go but we have put together an excellent squad. This year's gonna be another great one, go Angels!!!
This blog pretty much sums up what the angels are-tough competitors. This team will not rest till it get's another world series under it's belt. I really feel good about the enthusiasm this team has. I feel good about the chemestry. I feel good about the energetic vibe that is generated from this line up. I know good stuff is coming. I have tickets to Tuesday night's game (April 6 against the Twins) out at the Big A, and can hardly sleep at nights while I'm counting the days until the game. I'm in my late 30's and I feel like I'm 10 yrs. old again. This is really a great time to be an Angel's fan. GO HALOS!!!!!
I can't wait for Monday! 80 hours more. The rotation and bullpen are deeper than 08 and the offense has more pop. The team honestly has a serious shot to win EVERY night. See you all at the big A tonight, I'm not waiting.
I can't wait for Monday! 80 hours more. The rotation and bullpen are deeper than 08 and the offense has more pop. The team honestly has a serious shot to win EVERY night. See you all at the big A tonight, I'm not waiting.
Good Luck Torri. Stay healthy and play like you've never played before. It's baseball time again. Can't wait to watch you guys. You will go all the way if you work hard and stay focused. PLAY WITH PASSION!!!
I always love your optimism Mr Hunter!
I am disappointed with the players we lost (I miss Figgy and Vladdy already!) and I admit I was a very negative coming into the season. However I have faith that the club we have to date is strong enough to compete with the rest of the great teams in the league! I feel like the Angels really have to grind it out because of the great competition we have this year. Competition never hurt anyone, in fact I embrace it! It's about time the west has some fierce competitors :D.
I cant wait until the season starts!!! Although I am sad I am missing the Opening Day game 😦 I'll be with the team in spirit! Go Get em!
LOL hot damn Torii.. thanks for sharing those nicknames. My friends and I always get together to watch the games and we always try to keep good nicknames up for everyone
Most noted:
Howard "The Doctor" Kendrick
Jered "The Dream" Weaver
Brian "The Final Countdown" Fuentes
keep up the great ball, love the entries.
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On the one hand, they know that equity exposure is the best way to gain long-term returns for their clients. On the other, the ability of Congress and the White House to develop a thoughtful compromise could be the difference between 2013 being a good year for equities or a challenging one. Most advisors will be forgiven for feeling less than confident in the short-term outlook. One option to consider for implementing some portion of your equity portfolios in this uncertain environment is an equity long/short fund. A well-executed long/short fund can deliver equity exposure with less risk.
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In the broadest definition, long/short equity strategies involve buying stocks that are expected to increase in value and selling stocks that are expected to decrease in value. In practice, long/short managers construct portfolios by purchasing or synthetically going long securities and selling borrowed securities or synthetically shorting securities. The manager, in other words, is in some form betting for and against equities at the same time.
While long/short equity funds are often classified as "alternatives" exposure, they should more appropriately be thought of as equity with muted beta. While it is true that a talented manager can add value in both their long and short book, most managers tend to be more long than short so they will have a 'net long' position when the value of the two are combined. The tendency to be net long means that a long/short fund will likely have a fairly positive correlation to the market. In other words, if stocks are up, the fund will most likely be up; if stocks are down, the fund will most likely be down. However, because these funds will have a net exposure less than 100% to the market, they should be up less and down less. This is why we suggest thinking of them as muted equity beta.
Beyond the reduced beta, well-executed long/short funds can offer two other advantages in the current environment. First, if they can add value in their short book, the fund has the ability to do better than the beta would suggest they should do in either an up or down market. Second, some funds will adjust the beta of their portfolio (by buying or shorting more or less stocks) based upon their current read of the markets. In other words, the manager can help you make tactical equity exposure decisions on a day-to-day basis. If the manager is able to deftly guide the net exposure of the portfolio up and down through rallies and downswings it can result in the best of both worlds.
Of course, there is no such thing as a free lunch. First and foremost, there is no guarantee that the manager of a long/short fund can skillfully deliver on any of the above. Further, there are certain risks associated with the use of leverage or short-selling that are not present in a traditional long-only fund. The same additional levers that make long/short managers attractive also mean there is more complexity in evaluating, choosing and monitoring one.
Standing Out In a Small Crowd
In choosing a long/short equity strategy, there are single manager mutual funds as well as funds-of-funds options. Single manager funds tend to offer a higher level of transparency and accountability, but also introduce idiosyncratic risk. Funds-of-funds reduce the idiosyncratic risk by offering diversification; however, the fees tend to be higher. Either way, you'll want to pay attention to fees – the average expense for the long-short category as a whole is higher than that of U.S. stock funds. By number, they'realso still relatively rare in the mutual fund world, with less than 100 publicly offered funds.
Among that relatively short list, the research team at Envestnet | Prima has recently added one long/short fund to its Select lineup: The Robeco Boston Partners L/S Research Fund (BPIRX). A single manager strategy, the Robeco Fund represents what we consider to be a 'best-of-breed' long/short offering. The manager's ability to blend quantitative research with fundamental analysis, allocate capital across market capitalizations, and actively manage the fund's beta exposure depending on the current market environment are key value-adds for shareholders.
Long/Short for the Right Reasons
From a strategic perspective, long/short equity strategies could be used to reduce volatility in the equity sleeve of a portfolio while providing less correlated returns to traditional long-only strategies. On a more tactical basis, long/short equity strategies can be used when an advisor feels that equity valuations are rich and shorting would add value when prices fall. In either case, it should be noted that net and gross exposures among long/short managers can vary widely, and this reality should be taken into account.
In today's uncertain market environment, we have to think that the best long/short equity funds will be those that can nimbly increase and decrease their net exposure while adding value in both their long and short book. The goal is to get most of the market's returns when stocks go up, while limiting losses when they go down. Bottom line: adding a long/short equity manager to your clients' portfolios right now will not be the answer to all of the market symptoms related to the fiscal cliff, but such a move could bolster client's equity exposure while attenuating the risk.
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A Sandwich a Day: Meatball Parmagiana from Parisi Bakery
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In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
There are days when nothing less than a meatball parm will do. You may be looking for something warm and filling on a nippy day, or maybe you just have that slightly self-destructive urge to eat a sandwich that could feed a family of four.
For days like this, there's the Meatball Parmagiana ($8) from Parisi Bakery. It's massive, meaty, and my new favorite old school meatball parm hero. I say old school to because mentioning a meatball parm in Little Italy these days immediately invites comparison to the Torrisi rendition, and I don't think it's quite a fair fight—they're working on different sandwich levels.
Let's put it this way. If you want a porky, thoroughly spiced meatball parm, get Torrisi's at Parm. If you're looking for a meatball parm that's as Sunday Gravy classic as can be, with rich, bright sauce that highlights the slight sweetness of beef, this baby is the one for you. It helps that the bread comes right from the bakery; it's crusty and soft in just the right way to absorb some of the sauce and cradle the meatballs. This is pretty damn close to old school New York sandwich perfection.
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I recently heard a podcast (HBR IdeaCast) where Jerry Seinfeld shared his insights into innovation. One of his comments stuck with me: "it's very important to know what you don't like. It's good to have an idea, but a big part, I find, of a lot of innovation starts with someone saying: 'you know what I am really sick of?' That's where innovation begins."
I love the convenience of doing things online. But I hate to have to manage many passwords and ids. And I am particularly worried about online financial transactions (accessing bank accounts online, shopping online, paying bills online). Why? Well, credit and debit card fraud worldwide resulted in losses totaling US$21.84 billion in 2015; and in 2016, 30% of all cardholders worldwide (debit, credit, and prepaid) had experience card fraud in the past five years. México and Brazil are among the countries with the highest rate of credit card fraud―51 and 46 percent, respectively―so no wonder people in the region are so distrustful of financial institutions―Mexico and Brazil are the only Latin American countries included in the study. Which shows the need of financial institutions to increase the levels of security. But there must be a balance between usability and security: if the levels of security are too high, people either don't use the cards (it is too onerous for users in terms of effort) or engage in risky behavior (like writing down PINs and passwords). This distrust has important consequences for financial institutions in terms of lost revenue.
Finconecta, our 10-month program in partnership with a&b, just selected the 48 FinTechs that will integrate to the platform forward, as part of this pilot partially financed by Fomin/IDB. Among the selected FinTechs is Touchtech Payments, a Dublin-based startup. Which brings me back to Seinfeld. Touchtech specializes in online authentication for financial institutions using biometrics (fingerprints and retinal scanning). Its solution offers MasterCard and Visa certified payment authentication and is designed to reduce card fraud, increase the number of transactions completed online, and make it easier for people to use their cards online―in its webpage, Touchtech mentions that about 33% of online transactions are abandoned when they require a 3D-Secure password.
TouchTech's product, TAP (for transaction authentication platform), uses several technologies available in your smartphone: NFC technology and the capacitance fingerprint scanner. The NFC technology, which evolved from radio-frequency identification (RFID), safely transfers data from your card, located within four inches of your smartphone, to the merchant. Customers follow three simple steps without the need to manually enter card details: touch their card (with their phone), use their fingerprint (to authenticate the transaction), and pay. Touchtech also offers software (SDK for Windows, iOS, and Android) that allows financial service customers to log in into their accounts using fingerprint scanners on their smartphones and an e-signature system that allow users to identify themselves online for legal purposes.
Touchtech currently has clients in Europe and the Middle East. Hopefully financial institutions in the region will like the idea and get on board. We'll get a peek at these Fintechs in Foromic, later in October, in Buenos Aires.


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Author-Artist's Notes: Recently a blogging friend asked if I ever painted lighthouses. Although lighthouses are not frequently my subject of choice, I recognize that they hold profound symbolic significance for Christ followers. And so, I took the plunge. This post is an extended version of a "Revue" post previously published in August of 2017. My thoughts at that time, however, fit this "lighthouse" painting best. Thus, I have developed them more. Thank you, Sue, for prompting me to "revisit" the lighthouse theme. 🙂
©2018 Lynn Abbott
Caught in a sudden, severe thunderstorm, I cautiously picked my way along a major interstate.
We were just 45 minutes away from our destination, and yet, visibility was next to nothing. And when my then eight-year-old son asked, "Are we there yet?" I didn't know how to answer.
Quite frankly, given the dangerous downpour, I didn't knew how long it would take to arrive safely at the hotel.
And that day, I certainly had what my grandmother called a "white knuckle moment." To say that I tightly gripped my car's steering wheel would be an understatement.
I'll say this much, however: the cars traveling around me weren't in any better shape. None of us could see more than a few feet ahead of our vehicles. Obviously, we were all in this together, and it wasn't pretty.
I hugged the interstate shoulder and tried to keep the rear tail lights of the car directly ahead of me in view. If I could just find an exit, I felt that I could pull over safely.
I wasn't going to risk pulling over on the shoulder. One of my fellow drivers might not see me and the potential for an accident was great. And so I crept along, peering through the sheets of water that slammed my windshield.
Inside the car, an eerie silence prevailed. My mother and son prayed fervently.
To this day, I'm sure that the only thing that I did right that day was to follow the rear tail lights of the car ahead of me. I simply followed the leader, and fortunately for me, the leader happened to be an excellent driver.
Of course, a lot rested on the shoulders of the one out in front. That always seems to be the case. Maybe, that's why the apostle James said, "Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly," (James 3:1).
Leadership requires a lot of strength and wisdom. And for the most part, there are no guarantees of safe arrival when someone says, "Follow Me."
That day, I certainly had what my grandmother called a "white knuckle moment."
I learned that as a child. Neighborhood games of "Follow the Leader" truly reflected the leadership style of the one out in front. And on one fateful day, my buddies wisely didn't follow me to the letter of the game's law.
After all, at age 9, I was a bit of a dare-devil on my banana seat bike. I decided to set a fast and daring pace. I must have felt pretty confident because I tried out a new trick.
Too bad for me! The bike design didn't support such stunts. I flipped over the handle bars and hit the asphalt pavement.
Splat. Face plant. And I chipped a newly acquired adult front tooth.
Yup, who you follow is vitally important.
Undoubtedly, we glean much from both good and bad news…the good news? My friends didn't follow suit. The bad news? My mother hurried me to the dentist that day.
Indeed, I think lighthouses supply us with a kind of "good news; bad news" scenario. The bad news? If a sailor ignores a lighthouse or disregards its fog horn, he potentially pilots into grave danger.
If a ship approaches the shoreline in low visibility, it risks running aground or breaking up against the rocks.
Yup, who you follow is vitally important.
The good news, of course, is that someone built the lighthouse. And the keeper faithfully maintains the light to direct those at sea.
Yet, a sailor must be willing to acknowledge the light, receive the warning or bad news, and then, trust the lighthouse to guide him to safety.
The whole bad news bit is probably the reason that many of God's prophets failed the popularity test. Even God's people don't want to hear the bad news, and many prophets cried, "Danger!" It was a thankless job.
In one prophet in particular, I see the heart of God (Lamentations 3:32, 33). As does Abba, Jeremiah grieved when he saw God's children careening toward disaster.
Understandably, Jeremiah was a reluctant prophet. After all, most of us dislike delivering bad news.
Jeremiah, in fact, attempted to resign from his position.
In Jeremiah 20: 8-9, he wrote, "…So the word of the LORD has brought me insult and reproach all day long But if I say 'I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,' his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot."
A sailor must be willing to acknowledge the light, receive the warning or bad news, and then, trust the lighthouse to guide him to safety.
But as Paul says in Romans 11:29, "For God's gifts and his call are irrevocable."
God called Jeremiah to be a "lighthouse"; Jeremiah could not help but shine.
He has actually been nicknamed by theologians as "the weeping prophet." He identified with those he warned. Like a lighthouse keeper, his heart was for those at sea.
"Watch out… dangerous rocks, shallow waters threaten your ship," the fog horn mourns.
And Jeremiah warned, "This is what the LORD says: 'Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD,'" (Jeremiah 17:5).
Danger awaits the traveler. That's the bad news. And the prophet weeps.
Indeed, Abba weeps when you and I sail into danger– when we ignore His warnings, rely upon our own understanding or simply confront the fiery darts of the enemy, (Matthew 23:37).
On the other hand, although Abba loves us tenderly, that doesn't mean He soft-pedals His warnings. Abba doesn't play games when our very lives are in jeopardy. He sounds the alarm; He speaks directly. And He doesn't mince words.
After all, genuine love protects. You can be sure that when a child heads toward destruction, a loving parent will speak out.
Abba doesn't play games when our very lives are in jeopardy.
And Abba's love for us is greater than any love we will ever know in this world. For this reason, He calls my name, your name. He faithfully warns us:
"In this world, you have tribulation…" (John 16:33b)
Indeed, just as Jeremiah wept for his people, Israel, when they faced tidal waves, floundered upon the sea or even lost their spiritual compass, Abba also weeps with compassion when you and I navigate life's inevitable storms.
And this tenderness drives our loving, heavenly Father to sound the warning bell…
And the light shines even as the fog horn sounds. The fog horn bellows soulfully, and light redirects steadily.
Good news, bad news…
The light shines even as the fog horn sounds.
Yes, the Light of the World calls out to you and me: "…In the world you have tribulation…"
But then, He adds, "…but take courage; I have overcome the world," (John 16:33).
Life's seas beat hard upon the prow; even so, Abba calls out, "Follow me."
Friday brought the cross; Sunday proclaimed the resurrection. Bad news, good news.
Indeed, when darkness boasts and fog threatens, God's grace shines brightest.
Without a doubt, when thunder roars, you and I can trust Abba's tail lights. His truth shines, (Psalm 119:105). Grace filters through the fog like a brilliant flood light. Our Savior graciously illuminates the darkness, one passage at a time.
"The storm rages, but I am here," our heavenly Father gently reminds us.
If I have learned nothing else on my life's journey, at least I have come to understand this…
Visibility in this world frequently runs low. Storms come. Darkness and fog surround me.
When darkness boasts and fog threatens, God's grace shines brightest.
And when I bury my head, refuse to heed God's compassionate call, or fail to follow His loving light, I fall flat on my face in the dark.
Splat. Uh, huh. I have never been the ideal choice for "Follow the Leader."
But I know the One who is.
Of this I am sure: Abba's light is steadfast and true. Upon His word, we can rely.
And following His lead, we will not become casualties on the side of the road.
"To Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy–to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen," ~Jude :24


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