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Is the Lord Trying to Tell Me Something? REPRINT

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From June 15, 2020

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I am so not ready to go back to writing about the Chinese Communist Wuhan Death Virus, riots, soulless white liberals, and all that other schiff that everybody else is writing about. I am so not up for it, it isn’t funny.

That’s not like me. Usually on Monday I’m ready to wade back into the hurly-burly. So why am I thinking that today I’d like to work on my new book and put up a few blog posts that have nothing to do with Far Left Crazy trying to murder our country? I mean, we have to fight them, and we have to win.

But is God telling me, “I will fight them, boy. You go write your book”?

Yeahbut, yeahbut–Lord, what about my Newswithviews column?

“You don’t even know what you want to write for that. If I told you to sit down and write it today, you’d be stuck. So don’t worry about it.”

Tomorrow, then. I’ll get back into the melee tomorrow. I guess.

 

 

Nooze Burnout (That’s Me)

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I spend hours on assorted news sites during the day, keeping an eye out for stories I ought to report here the next day. It’s a weekly newspaper editor’s habit. And by the end of the week, I’m pretty much noozed out. But good.

Yesterday afternoon I had two stories in front of me and was trying to decide which one to use. I consulted my wife. “Here’s a police officer, in uniform, caught shoplifting a $140 pair of shoes,” I said. “This other story–”

“Why don’t you just put it away for a while?”

Okay. I will. An hour later, just before supper… I could not remember what the other story was. 

Well, gee. The nooze is a tidal wave of claptrap every day. It renews itself like kudzu. No matter how you cut it back, it’s there again the next day. Or the next hour.

So I have forgotten what I thought, briefly, was an important nooze story. The dump-truck dumped its load and that one little pebble disappeared.

I’ve got to ease up on the weekends. The nooze is important, but it’s not all-important.

That news is in the Bible, and it doesn’t change.