Let Us Pray . . .

Here is a prayer by Gemma Galgani given around a hundred and twenty years ago:

In my prayer, dear Jesus, I am with you wholly.
If I meditate on the cross, I suffer with you.
If I meditate on the resurrection, I rise with you.
So daily I die and rise.

If I walk with you along the hot dusty roads,
I become hot, sweaty, tired, as you surely did.
If I hear you preach, my ears tingle with excitement,
And my heart is pierced by the sharpness of your words.
If I watch you heal people, I can feel your touch,
So my own body trembles at your power.

Let me walk with you during every minute of my life,
Let me constantly be inspired by your words,
Let me daily be renewed by your power,
That I may die to sin and rise to perfect righteousness.

A Difficult Simplicity

YOU HAVE HEARD IT SAID THAT "GOD LOVES YOU AND HAS A WONDERFUL PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE." BUT I SAY TO YOU, "GOD LOVES YOU AND HAS A DIFFICULT PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE" -Listening to Jesus through Erwin McManus

Listen to Jesus in Greg Boyd words, "Our central job is not to solve the world's problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life to others. Many Evangelicals spend more time fighting against certain sinners in the political arena than they do sacrificing for those sinners. Our unique calling is simply to replicate Christ's sacrificial love in service to the world . . . We need to learn how to walk in freedom from violence, self-centeredness, materialism, nationalism, racism, and al lother false ways of getting life (pp.64-69, Myth of a Christian nation).

Do you think it's the church's job to make the world turn out right?

Do I Look Like Your Lawyer?

IF DEFENDING YOU MEANS PUTTING UP WITH YOUR TANTRUMS AND ACCUSATIONS AND BAD MANNERS AND JUVENILE LOGIC, YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND YOURSELF A LAWYER WHO CAN SWALLOW IT---NOT ME" - Perry Mason

"FRIEND," JESUS SAID, "WHO SET ME TO BE A
JUDGE OR ARBITRATOR OVER YOU?" (Luke 12:14)

I talked to a judge today and heard another man say he might need a lawyer. Do you ever find yourself being a lawyer, an arbitrator between two disputing people? How is it that so much greed and self-interests take over in the name of "fairness" and "justice" these days? Why is it that people think they have "rights" over other people's rights and that some times it's better to let a matter go than to fight and make matters worse.

Jesus did not come to be this man's legal counselor or his brother's ethical advisor but his mission was to stay focused on God's kingdom. But Jesus always has a way of getting around our concerns to the heart of the matter and the so Jesus addressed the matter of the heart. He said, "Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possesions (Luke 12:15). It matters little if we improve the legal system if in the end, we do not change people minds and hearts that life does not consist in the abundance of their possesions.

Does not First Corinthians chapter six also tell us not to sue our brothers and sisters in Christ? Why do we feel compelled to do it anyway despite what Scripture says? Can we allow ourselves to be cheated at times or take the loss? (v.7). How we handle conflict and before others makes a difference in how people in the world perceive us.

What does it mean to advance God's kingdom today in a world that only wants to advance getting ahead of every one else?

Cross-Shaped Glasses

"THE CHURCH WHOSE THEOLOGY IS SHAPED BY THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS MUST ITSELF
TAKE ON A CRUCIFORMED LIFE IF ITS
THEOLOGY IS TO CARRY CREDIBILITY"
- Charles Cousar

Is it safe to say that the church in America today needs a new way of seeing? The cross I believe provides the lens which sharpens and clarifies how God wants us to look at the world and relate to it. Leonard Allen in his The Cruciform Church (ACU Press, 1990) portrays the cross as a lens in which the church is to be cross-shaped or a cruciform community.

Here are three ways that Allen gives in showing us what the cross does:

1. Through the cross we see the heart of God revealed most clearly.

2. Only through the cross can we see the true nature of human sin and the depths of divine grace.

3. The cross provides the model for God's new social order, the messianic community.

"The cross exposes our God-substitutes, our self-serving religiousity, and breaks the illusion that we are masters of our own lives. It challenges the complacency of churches that dare to call themselves by the name of the Crucified One" (p.133).

"The cross thus puts our churches to the test. It exposes our smug elitism, our affluent isolation . . . It shames us for our church fights, for our readiness to call it quits with our sisters and brothers. And when we lazily embrace the spirit of the age, becoming little more than 'Christ clubs,' the cross reawakens us to our first calling (emphasis mine, p.139).

The Crux of the Matter

"THE CROSS PUTS EVERYTHING TO THE TEST"
- Martin Luther

The cross of Christ is the ultimate symbol of God's kingdom. Christians are not just in the world but not of it but also for it. The crux of the matter is the condition of our hearts and Jesus wants to transform our hearts to transform the world around us. So at the end of the day, the question is not how much did I love but are we loving as Jesus loved? Everything we do is to be done in love (1 Corinthians 16:14).

As I have been reading Greg Boyd's wonderful book The Myth of a Christian Nation, he provocatively shows the contrast that exists between the kingdom of this world and the kingdom of God. Here is a quote:

"The kingdom of the world trusts the power of the sword, while the kingdom of God trusts the power of the cross. The kingdom of the world advances by exercising 'power over', while the kingdom of God advances by exercising 'power under' . . . The kingdom of the world seeks to control behavior, while the kingdom of God seeks to transform lives from the inside out. Also, the kingdom of the world is rooted in preserving, if not advancing, one's self interests and one's own will, while the kingdom of God is centered on exclusively on carrying out God's will, even if this requires sacrificing one's own interests" (p.47).

The Lost Art of Shadowing

WHO KNOWS WHAT LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN,
THE SHADOW KNOWS - Old Radio Program

My Two brothers and Dad used to listen to the old radio show The Shadow. It was filled with adventure, suspence, and mystrey. I realize that so much of what it means to follow Jesus today has lost both its beauty and mystrey. All of us are called to imitate God (Ephesians 5:1). The word imitate means "mimic" or "shadow." We are exactly to do what we see another doing. As Christ followers, then, we are to mimic Jesus.

One of the unusual and even mysterious gifts from God is a friend who came out from prison and shadowed me for seven months. It was one of the most fruitful and wonderful experiences I have ever had in Christian ministry. We both took so much from it all. Next week, I will have another man shadow me for a week. May all of us aspire to think, feel, and act like Christ as iron sharpens iron in serving as Jesus told us to serve, two by two.

Praying the Scripture

I tell people all the time that a powerful way to pray is to pray the Scripture. Personalize the Psalms or one of Paul's prayers or a series of verses in the Bible and pray God's Word over situations and others.

Here is a prayer about God's Word from Chuck Smith in his Epiphany:


We ask you, Father,

To give us eyes to see and ears to hear

Every time we open the Bible.

Lead us to the truths you want us to learn,

The deeds you want to perform,

The life you want us to live.

Enlighten us, encourage us, correct us, and train us

According to the Scriptures.

Keep us in your Word, and lock your Word in our hearts,

So that our minds are illumined by it,

Our hearts are transformed by it,

Our spirits are renewed by it,

And our behavior is shaped by it.

May the mercy of God our Father,

The truth of Jesus Christ His Son,

And the love of the Holy Spirit,

Be made real in our lives through Your eternal Word;

Both now and forever more.

Amen

(pp.165-166).

God in a Box?

"GOD WILL OFFEND YOUR MIND TO
REVEAL YOUR HEART" - Mike Bickle

Do you ever find yourself at odds with what Scripture teaches? Do you find yourself at times questioning why God did something in the Bible or how can God do this to me today? Has God ever asked you to do something that did not make any sense? So much of Christianity today has God in a rational box. God must fit into our understanding if God is to be God. But when we put God in a box, God is not limited, we have only limited ourselves. We have put ourselves in a box when we think somehow we have captured or tamed the untamable God of the Bible.

God does things that goes beyond our imagination and can not be captured by our logical deductions. Most of my young adult life I battled with low self-esteem and fighting off negative thoughts that wanted to rob me of any effective use for God. One time I remember I was doing something really stupid and I heard God get my attention by calling me "stupid." I thought later that God does not call people stupid. It's been strange that I have heard several people tell me similar stories. Even though my whole life God has been calling me "His Beloved," there was at least one time I sensed God calling me stupid because I was acting very stupid at that time.

Another time God put on my heart to do something that I thought was embarassing. I felt kind of stupid or sheepishly humiliated for doing it. I could not wrap my brain around what God was trying to teach me and again I heard the Lord speak to my heart and say, "I am teaching you humility an obedience."

What is it that God has been showing you lately?

What are ways we try to put God in a box?

A Meditation

God invites us to the great adventure. Listen to the words by A. W. Tozer,

A Real Christian is odd in a number of ways.
He empties himself in order that he might be full,
admits he is wrong so he can be declared right,
goes down in order to go up.

He is strongest when he is weakest.
He dies so he can live,
forsakes in order to have,
gives away so he can keep,
sees the invisible,
hears the inaudible,
and knows that which passeth knowledge.

The River of God

"JUMPING INTO THE RIVER OF GOD MEANS LETTING
GO OF CONTROL. IT INVOLVES RISK" - Melinda Fish

I love what Henri Nouwen says in his Road To Daybreak when he speaks of what it means to jump into the river of God. Here is what he says:

"It seems as if God stands on the other side of the river and calls me to jump in and swim. But I am afraid; I think I will drown. I think I am not prepared to let go of all the good things on my side of the river. But I also want to be where he is; I sense the freedom, joy, and peace of the other side. There is a clarity I lack, an utter simplicity, a total commitment, and a vision which all come from God, as a gift.

There is a voice in me that says, "You don't want to become a fanatic, a sectarian, a Jesus freak, a narrow-minded enthusiast . . . I want to remain open to the many ways of being, explore many options, be informed about many things . . . " But I know this is not the voice I should trust. It is the voice that keeps me from making a full commitment to Jesus and from truly seeing the way God wants me to be in the world" (p.71).

Have you jumped into the river lately?

The Revolutionary Kingdom

GROWTH TAKES PLACE AT THE EDGE OF RISK

I have been reading through Greg's Boyd's facinating book The Myth of a Christian Nation (Zondervan, 2005). Dr. Boyd says the heart of Jesus's teachings is the Kingdom of God. Here are some excerpts from his book:

"God is not primarily about getting people to pray a magical 'sinner's prayer' or to confess certain magical truths as a means of escaping hell. He's not about gathering together a group who happen to believe all the right things. Rather, He's about gathering together a group of people who embody God's kingdom----who individually and corporately manifest the reality of the reign of God on the earth. And he's about growing this new kingdom through his body to take over the world. The vision of what God is about lies at the heart of Jesus ministry, and it couldn't contrast with the kingdom of the world more sharply" (p.30).

This is a revlutionary kingdom that begins as a mustard seed and continues to grow and grow. This kingdom power does not look like Rambo or the Terminator but looks a lot like Calvary. Boyd continues,

"The kingdom of this world is concerned with preserving law and order by force; the kingdom of Godis concerned with establishing the rule of God through love. The kingdom of this world is centrally concerned with what people do; the kingdom of God is centrally concerned with how people are and what they can become. The kingdom of the world is characterized by judgment; the kingdom of God is characterized by outrageous, even scandalous, grace" (p.32).

In the end, whose kingdom are you living in and breathing in? Whose kingdom power are you living by? Or to say it another way, whose will governs your life, God's will or your own will?

The Road to Prayer

"WE NEED A LOT OF HUMILIATION
FOR A LITTLE BIT OF HUMILITY"
- Henri Nouwen


"Father,
I abandon myself into your hands;
do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you;
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done to me,
and in all your creatures.

I wish no more than this,
O Lord.

Into your hands I commend my soul;
I offer it to you with all the love
of my heart,
for I love you, Lord.
and so need to give myself into your hands,
without reserve
and with boundless confidence.
For you are my Father."

[Henri Nouwen THE ROAD TO DAYBREAK, P.121]


This father's Day weekend, I can only live this prayer by God's help through His Holy Spirit. I especially think of a Mother I talked with today who lost her son. These words have even more meaning in the light of painful endurance as we surrender our lives to God each and every day.

Roswell

I watched the first season of Roswell which is about teens with alien powers that know this is not their home and their home is somewhere beyond the heavens. Are not Jesus followers supposed to be resident aliens where this earthly place is not our home but our home is in heaven?

In the last week, I've had three people tell me they pray and ask for the Holy Spirit every day which comes from Jesus' teaching about the Good Father (Luke 11:11-13). God the Father gives the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking Him. I started praying this prayer today as another discipleship experiment. Where this leads, only God knows.

So I have been studying Luke chapter eleven which starts with the Lord's prayer. Then Jesus gives several teachings on prayer going from the parables about prayer like the persistent friend and the good father and then we read about Christ healing a demonized person and Christ's power is stronger than Satan's power.

Can it be that as we pray and ask for the Holy Spirit that God is empowering, leading, and giving us spiritual power for the day?

Is there "more" to the Christian life or even to our prayer life?

"Bushwacked!"

"THE HORSE IS PREPARED FOR THE DAY OF BATTLE,
BUT DELIVERANCE IS OF THE LORD"
(Proverbs 21:31, NKJV)

As I reflect on this past week happenings, I am utterly amazed in all that God is doing around me. This is a time of preparation spiritually and for churches to be ready for God's harvest no matter how or what it looks like. Can God be bringing about every kind of deliverance from emotional pain, physical problems, social chaos, and even national healing and spiritual deliverance?

If Ephesians chapter six calls Christians at the end of one verse and the beginning of another verse "to stand," we better pay attention (vv.13-14). Ephesians chapter one has a powerful prayer for spiritual discernment and heavenly wisdom. Praying God's Word is a potent weapon against an adversary who tries to continually bushwack us.

Last Wednesday, I had a whole series of crises phone calls. One of our family's 23 year old son was taken to the emergency room and they did not know what was wrong with him? One of our senior ladies had a lid on a ice machine come down and hit her head and sent her to the hospital. The woman who picked up the injured senior lady hit a deer on the way home and that was not even half of what happened that night within a few short hours. Do we see all these things as a kind of "weird coincidences" or do we see something spiritually going on behind the scenes?

Well, there were happy moments this week like my identical twin brother's son's wedding and a family get together this past weekend. I also got to talk to a Bible College student about the spiritual life in regards to the book of Acts and another young brilliant Catholic man who was the Groom's best man where we had a wonderful discussion about the early church fathers and the spiritual life seen from the monastic tradition.

When I returned home, there was also waiting for me a funeral of this 23 year old son who died of staff infection. As I spoke and listened to this grieving family, the Mother said she needed some kind of revelation or sign from God that her son was okay so we prayed for her. The Grandfather told me among many things that God gave him a definition of S-I-N----Satan's Insidious Nature. He told me he looked up 'insidious' in the dictionary since he did not know what it meant and it said "Bushwacked."

My Internet service on the day of the funeral would not work so I called Comcast. The woman asked me if I was a Pastor and she told me she could not believe her first phone call was from a Pastor in Indiana because she was just praying for a sign from God in Louisianna. She also gave me a scripture about Abraham giving up his son and that God will provide and if that meant anything to me? (I was just about to leave and do the funeral for this family who just lost their son).

I saw God's presence moving among these twenty-something generation as they formed their own community of standing together in their grief. I also got a phone call to go to the hospital and minister to an 18 year old man who had begun doing drugs and was having some bad reactions to it all. He surrended his life and bad habits to God and asked if several of us would walk beside him in this life of faith in Jesus he was now holding onto like a life boat.

And so driving back from the hospital, I sensed God leading me to look up Proverbs 21:31. I called two friends of mine. The first one I left a message and the Scripture. The second one told me they just had a loss in the family and asked me to pray for them. After I prayed, he told me about a dream he had the night before of Jesus standing in a stable grooming his horse. He asked me if that meant anything to me?

Today my other friend called me back and asked me "How did I know?" I said, "Know what?" He said that exactly the time I called and left that scripture was the exact time he was right in the middle of a battle in a church board meeting. He said thanks for the prayers and encouragement and I thought "How cool is that?"

Has Satan tried to Bushwack you lately?

What Is Jesus Doing?

PRINCIPLES ARE WHAT PEOPLE HAVE
INSTEAD OF GOD
- Frederick Buechner

People may where WWJD bracelets but their habits and ethics seemed unchanged. Trying to live "What Would Jesus Do?" in the moment or in the crises of decision does not lead people to make the same kind of decisions and lifestyle choices Jesus did. Jesus lived his whole life solely for God immersed in spiritual disciplines. Unless followers of Jesus choose to do something similiar, people will not only find it difficult but impossible to live for God on the fly. It just doesn't work that way!

Anything that puts discipleship on cruise control is not biblical discipleship. So maybe the next time you are contemplating what is God's will for my life, look around, see where God is at work and join Him. You may be surprised by what God is doing.

Is God an Alien?

IT WOULD SEEM STRANGE THAT CHRISTIANITY
SHOULD HAVE COME INTO THE WORLD JUST TO
RECEIVE AN EXPLANATION - Soren Kierkegaard

Scientific-oriented people cannot believe there is a God so they like to think that maybe there is a higher intelligence of life that originates from aliens. People cannot see God and therefore they do not believe in God but they can believe in aliens even though they have never seen one. Is God an alien? Maybe we are the ones who have demonized God's creation and it is we who are the alien invaders?

I sometimes think we need a new book called God is from Mars and Humans are from Venus. We want to figure God out with our heads while God wants us to experience Him in our hearts. The problem for many of us is we want to figure God out before we risk putting our faith in Him. We want to analyize and understand "the Holy Other', never mind that our minds are fallen and more unholy than holy.

Life has moments of ease and difficulty and we decide what purpose we will work and even suffer for in the end. Meaning comes from God, not centered in our certainty but in God's faithfulness as we choose to risk everything on Him.

What is it that gives your life meaning and purpose?

Mystical Tradition

A MAN WITH AN EXPERIENCE IS NEVER AT THE MERCY
OF A MAN WITH AN ARGUMENT - Leonard Ravenhill

I love Eastern Orthodoxy for several reasons but I especially love their emphasis on the church being 'a way of life' and all theology is to be 'incarnational' in which the church embodies the presence of God on earth. What would happen if more Christians lived out the Divine Liturgy and prayed 'the divine hours' throughout each day? What would happen if 'Lectio Divina" (an ancient way of praying the Scriptures) formed our thoughts and habits?

Is it possible that a sacramental realism permeated God's people like those who tried to reform the church through monasticism centuries ago whereas we can't help but see and sense God's presence no matter where we are at or what we are doing?

At the end of the day, it seems like more and more people want to meet 'divinized' people who have been in the presence of Jesus rather than simply hearing intellectual and rationalistic arguments.

What about you? Would you rather hear good arguments for the Christian worldview or talk to someone whose life story is shaped by an encounter with God?

The Empire Strikes Back

"A SIGNIFICANT SEGMENT OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM
IS GUILTY OF NATIONALISTIC AND POLITICAL IDOLATRY"
- Greg Boyd

Dark Vader is a force to be reckoned with in the Star Wars episodes. He practices the old magic which kills, destroys, and ruins others. The dark empire strikes back and it strikes with a vengeance. Christians are aware that they were made for another world but too often unwittingly confuse the powers of the State or allegiance to their country with the kingdom of God.

Greg Boyd is in his provocative book The Myth of A Christian Nation shares his concerns of the dangers of too closely associating the Christian faith with a political perspective. The vision of God's kingdom gets clouded by national and political agendas. How many times have we heard things like "Let's take America Back" or "winning the culture war" or "America is a Christian nation?"

When this happens, rather than living a counter-cultural or radically alternative way of life, we adopt the values of the surrounding culture around us. Although Boyd's book is more focused on the abuses of the religious right, his critique also applies to the religious left as well. God's kingdom is straightforward and uncompromising while the kingdoms of this world are always complex, ambigous, and full of compromises.

How does the principalities and fallen powers of this world influence the church? Is the quest for political power destroying the church?

A Prayer

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those
who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1, NIV)


I FEAR YOUR JUDGMENT, LORD.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT AT THE END OF TIME ALL THE FACES OF BROTHERS,
AND ESPECIALLY THOSE OF MY TOWN, MY NEIGHBORHOOD, MY
WORK, WILL BE LINED UP BEFORE ME,
AND IN YOUR MERCILESS LIGHT I SHALL RECOGNIZE IN THESE FACES
THE LINES THAT I HAVE CUT
THE MOUTHS THAT I HAVE TWISTED,
THE EYES THAT I HAVE DARKENED,
AND THOSE WHOSE LIGHT I HAVE EXTINGUISHED.
THEY WILL COME, THOSE THAT I HAVE KNOWN AND THOSE THAT I HAVE
NOT KNOWN, THOSE OF MY TIME AND ALL THOSE THAT HAVE
FOLLOWED, FASHIONED BY THE WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD.

AND I SHALL STAND STILL, TERRIFIED, SILENT.
IT IS THEN, O LORD, THAT YOU WILL SAY TO ME . . .

. . . 'IT WAS I' . . .

LORD, FORGIVE ME FOR THAT FACE WHICH HAS COMDEMNED ME,
LORD, THANK YOU FOR THAT FACE WHICH HAS AWAKENED ME.


[Poem "That face, Lord, Haunts Me" excerpt by Michael Quoist Prayers]

Holy Hilarity

LIFE IS A TEST AND MONEY
IS ONE OF THOSE TESTS

"And he sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the multitude putting money into the treasury" (Mark 12:41). Jesus often spoke of money and draws our attention to look at our ways of giving. Do we do it cheerfully or begrudgingly? Does money call the shots in our life on what we can afford to buy or not buy and are we really free from the love of money?

If Christ has made us free, he has freed us from the power of money over our lives. Christ's continual presence with his community guides us through the unpredicatable ways of the Holy Spirit (see John 3:8). The Christian life is not some new rigid legal code. Rather, it is the church's response to the Apostles teachings and the Spirit's leading. We squirm when reading "No one claimed that any of his possesions were his own, but they shared everything they had . . . There was no needy person among them" (Acts 4:32, 34a). The resurrection reality and Spirit's guiding power allowed the early church to have a holy, almost reckless spontaneity. Are we today as secure in God's care to provide and the Spirit's ability to lead?

The Spirit blows where it wishes and we are free to respond to needs as the Spirit leads. So as I reflect on this issue of holy hilarity in our giving, here are some thoughts I jotted down in preparation for our discipleship study on God's economy:

1. Soak yourself in the Bible's sometimes soothing, but also unsettling words about trust.

2. We need to make the issue of our finances a matter of regular prayer. Do we pray for greater trust and open-handed generosity?

3. We need to a good conversation and to listen to the community of other believers. Money and finances are not just a private matter but communal and best done within a community context.

4. Freedom in Christ and freedom in our giving means sacrificial giving, even when our finances seem tight. Giving releases the grip money has on our lives and even breaks the poverty mentality ("I never have enough").

When we do these things, we discover freedom worth far more than any amount of money we might have saved in our withholding. God has been dealing with me about Sabbath----spiritual times of rest and focus as well as discipline. Has God given you a vision of liberation in Christ from Mammon's bondage? How are you doing?

How has the Holy Spirit led you into a moment of hilarious giving or spontaneous generosity?

Quotes for the Journey

"REMEMBER, THAT THERE IS MEANING BEYOND ABSURDITY. KNOW THAT EVERY DEED COUNTS, THAT EVERY WORD IS POWER . . . ABOVE ALL, REMEMBER THAT YOU MUST BUILD YOUR LIFE AS IF IT WERE A WORK OF ART" - Abraham Heschel

"Faith is a blush in the presence of God"

"We must beware lest we violate the holy,
lest our dogmas overthink mystrey,
lest our psalms sing it away."

"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is."

"Religion is not 'what man does with his solitariness.'
Religion is what man does with the presence of God."

"Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth.; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self."


(excerpts from Abraham Heschel I Asked For Wonder (Crossroad, 2001).

A Parable of the Church

A man who wanted to buy a farm was looking it over.
He found the cows divided into little groups.

"Tell me why you have divided the cows like this," said the man.

"Well," said the farmer, "these cows here are all white."

"Yes, I see that, but those are also white."

"Those have shorter legs."

"But the cows over there are white and have short legs, too. Why are they separate?"

"Oh, they have longer horns."

"Well! When I buy this farm, I will divide the cows into just two groups:

"those who give milk and those who don't."



[Ortiz, Cry of the Human Heart, p.33]