For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. Mark, ch.8

My son, Isaac, is a lego fanatic — and has been since he was three years old. In some ways, lego fanatics are the same today as they’ve always — but in other ways, they’re quite different. When I grew up, we were basically working with squares and rectangles. But kids today have all sorts of shapes and accessories and directions — everything necessary to produce a ‘finished product’ by design.

in his book Why Religion Matters, Huston Smith notes that “all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them. Searching for an image of the divine that will fit, they paw over various options as if they were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, matching them successively to the gaping hole at the puzzle’s center.”