Family, church, and world, as viewed through Dave's myopic eyes.
I undertook this verse-by-verse exercise of meditation on a passage in Paul’s letter to a 1st Century church to help me slow down and let the inspired words of Scripture sink deep within me. Publishing such a personal meditation is no doubt off-putting to some readers, but my prayer is that God may use my unschooled ramblings in some way, nevertheless.
Soli Deo Gloria.
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My name is Dave Ayers and I hope you will be a frequent visitor to the Orlop. What is an Orlop, you ask? It is the lowest deck on an Age of Sail man-of-war, well below the waterline where the cables are stowed. It's also a good place for a foremast jack to hide for a catnap. I learned this from reading Patrick O'Brian sea novels, and since my computer workstation is also below the water line and I have been known to sneak a nap there, I thought it would make a good name for this blog.
I discovered blogging several years ago when my son Larry, a natural-born blogger, discovered the wonders of WordPress, a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. (Their words, not mine.) Anyway, some five years, 750 articles and thousands of words later, I'm still at it, a testimony to this easy-to-use program and the therapy of wordsmithing.
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I made it over to the Orlop throughout Lent. often it was an other worldly kind of experience appropriate for the time of year. have a good Easter tommorrow.
Thanks for letting me know you visited the Orlop during Lent and for letting this old coot share some thoughts and prayers with you. To know that yet another generation will be proclaiming the gospel fills me with hope and praise.
He is risen indeed!
As the missing link in the above comments, I too am filled with hope and praise! Could all those awana verses he had to memorize have even a small part? I remember thinking, ‘this kid has no idea what he’s parroting’ But the Word does not return void.