Dancing in the Storms

 

Storms of life will come. Jesus tells us plainly that we will have tribulations (Jn 16.33). These storms have different manifestations, come for many reasons, and have the potential to cause us great suffering. God doesn't want us to just survive them, He wants us to learn how to dance in the storms.

The First Step. Forward: Enter into Rest

Matt 11.28-30 TPT - "Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine. Learn my ways and you'll discover that I'm gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in me. For all that I require of you will be pleasant and easy to bear.”

Come to Jesus, enter into His rest. A short while back in "A Better Way," part 1, Pastor Craig reminded us that Jesus wants us to enter into His Rest from our labors. By remembering to walk in step with Jesus and do things His way, we enter into Rest from our own labors and we have energy to live the life that He is calling us to.

The Second Step. Onward: Receive Peace

Phil 4.6-7 TPT - Don't be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude. Tell him every detail of your life, then God's wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will guard your heart and mind through Jesus Christ. 

It's so easy to get distracted by the storms of this life. The winds become boisterous and terrifying. Saturate yourself in prayer, keep offering your heart felt cries and pleas to him, every detail, and that peace that surpasses all understanding allows you to move in the strength and the power of Christ.

The Third Step. Outward: Give Thanks

1Thes 5.18 TPT - And in the midst of everything be always giving thanks, for this is God's perfect plan for you in Christ Jesus.

From this powerful place of peace filled rest, we can give thanks in all things, even the unpleasant things. We don't give thanks for them, we give thank in them, showing the world that this is very Christ, that He dwells in us when we are not moved or persuaded.

The Fourth Step. Upward: Dance in Joy

1Pet 4.12-13 TPT - Beloved friends, if life gets extremely difficult, with many tests, don't be bewildered as though something strange were overwhelming you. Instead, continue to rejoice, for you, in a measure, have shared in the sufferings of the Anointed One so that you can share in the revelation of his glory and celebrate with even greater gladness! 

The greatest dance move of the Spirit-life Conqueror: Joy in Tribulation. This is entering into the heavenly places by the knowledge of the sacrifice of the mighty Son of God, the Anointed One whose sacrifice enables you to move in the same path and embrace even the most daunting of life's storms with His Joy. 

When we know that we know that our steps are ordered by the Lord even through the midst of the storms, those steps become a dance and this? This is Dancing in the Storms. It is the life song and testimony of the saints who share in the revelation of Christ-filled, Christ-forward Life of Glory, dancing over and beyond the ashes of pain, suffering, heartache, dancing ever Forward, Onward, Outward, and Upward to the effortless life-beat of Victory flowing from the Anointed Eternal Life-giver. 

Dance children, dance.

Dance in the Storms.

All scriptural references come from The Passion Translation, "...a modern, easy-to-read Bible translation that unlocks the passion of God’s heart and expresses his fiery love—merging emotion and life-changing truth.”(https://www.thepassiontranslation.com/) This translation has become one of my favorites to use and speaks of the Word of God to us in terms of adoration and exaltation have stirred my soul in this season of Storms and Love in my life.

Photo is from a clip from the movie "Singin' in the Rain," starring Gene Kelley ( https://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/singing-in-the-rain.jpg ). I do not own the rights to this image.

Path to Peace 5 - Loving the Divine Will

This is a continuation from Path to Peace 4 - Less Me, the Divine Will and the conclusion of the Path to Peace segment.

 

Dying to self through living for and through Christ is God and it must be the one thing that I seek, forgetting and putting all other things behind me and beneath Him. Self-death is the only true victory for the believer.

And so I be-come, ready to wage war in a whole different dimension. Waging war as a son or daughter of God is to do so from the position of being seated with the I Am through the atoning works and blood and manifold promises of Jesus, the Loving Sacrifice and Living Word. I Am at peace with God. I Am making peace with me. And as I Know peace, I Will bring peace.

For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). 2Cor 10:3-5 [AMP].

Blessed are the Peacemakers who shall be-come the Sons and Daughters of the Great I Am. When we have learned to war for peace within ourselves, we will realize that peace is increased within when it is more abundant without. We begin to war on the behalf of our brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, community. We not only cry for peace, we fight for peace. But the power of Christ is both proactive and creative, allowing us to make peace - in ourselves and for others.

Let us consider and give attentive, continuous care to watching over one another, studying how we may stir up (stimulate and incite) to love and helpful deeds and noble activities. (Heb 10.24 AMPC)

The obedience of God being fulfilled in us, our lives begin to set the atmosphere around us, creating the sweet fragrance of the presence of the Prince of Peace. Our works speak of His Work, and others are drawn closer. What to do with the closer? That's something we'll be exploring in our next series of articles.

I am reminded that thanksgiving is a key weapon in our arsenal. The thankful soul appreciates the gift and displays it with honor and gratitude. I am thankful for the path, the process that God has laid out for us as He calls us to become peacemakers. It serves us well to remember with gratitude how gracious God is to us and that everything He does for us is because He loves us.

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. (Jer 29:11-13 NIV)

Peace is found when we seek the peace-giver with all of our hearts. We share it with others because of His love.

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I pray that this little exploration on peace has been a blessing to you and that you've gleaned something by it. Be sure to remark in the comments - either here, or on Facebook - any way that this has been a blessing to you. Thank You for joining me; after Thanksgiving we'll be exploring Biblical Friendship. I'm grateful for your presence on this journey; may the peace of God be upon and within you in all that you say and do.

Path to Peace 4 - Humility, the Divine Will

This is a continuation from Path to Peace 3 - Less Me, the Divine Will 

It takes patience and agreement with the Word of God to learn and accept His divine will, and just as importantly, time alone with Him, communing on which of our thoughts are acceptable to Him and what is not. In spending time with Him, we discover what is needed in order to fill the lacks and change the desires; this will allow us to submit to, agree with and eventually love His divine will.

“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” -Matt 11:28-30 MSG

Our flesh wants this to be a hard thing, a badge to borne, an achievement to achieve. Jesus, the Good Shepherd says, "Lay those things down. Leave them, you won't need them here. Stop trying to do. Just sit here with me and become. When it's time to leave this pasture and go do, we're taking that smaller package."

Humility becomes our path to peace: it is the doorway to the self-mortification process and the appreciation of the Art of Letting Go. I learn to release myself from the offense, agitation, anger, desires of control, and fear of the I am nots - I am not so talented, I am not so smart, I am not so in control... I embrace and trust the great I Am. I come to a place of peace, free from turmoil, because I learn to appreciate and hold dear and true, I come to love, what God thinks about me. I begin to delight in the little, beautiful things revealed to me that I never knew about myself, and the things that I never knew that He thought about me.

I Am... Loved, Protected, of Amazing Worth, Strong, Wise, Free, Beautiful - all of these things and so much more, but only effectually and safely In Him.

As Christians, we must re-learn how and what to learn; humility - realizing how little we truly know - is key. Developing new, positive routines is useful scaffolding-work to build upon our Incredible Foundation. Unorthodox tools can be used to create indelible edifices that can stand the tests of time - that is to say there are diverse methods available which can write pathways of change upon our hearts; we bring them before the Word, test them, try them on to see how they rest upon us and do the submission-work to see them come to life in us so that they come to life through us.

Self-death - release from the ties and lies of this life and all its vain precepts - is the only true victory for the believer. These other things are good, but dying to self through living for and through Christ is God and it must be the one thing that I seek, forgetting and putting all other things beneath Him and behind me so that I may press onward to the prize of Christ-likeness that is before me.

This love story concludes in Path to Peace 5 - Loving the Divine Will

I dedicate this episode of Path to Peace to the memory of my beloved, dear departed former wife, a Warrior Queen for the Kingdom of Heaven who spoke peace to our hearts always.

Path to Peace 3 - Less Me, the Divine Will

This is a continuation from Path to Peace 2 - Living the Divine Will 

Self-peace comes when I do what I love and zealously avoid what I do not (“to thine own self be true”) - and this is "good." Truth-peace comes when I am content with what God calls truth and I do that which He loves and avoids and abhors what He does not; and this is God. When the Prince of Peace is the ruler of my heart, His presence is the rule within my heart, and I then know Soul-peace - and this is the Will of God and it it His purpose for my life.

Peace without a standard is a truce waiting to be broken. It is why the standard, the objective, the all-defining goal must be not the ideals of Christ, but nothing less than the very person of Christ, in submitted obedience to His desire:

...those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. Rom 8:29 AMPC

God is transforming us into His way of being while we are stuck with our humanity. This duality causes manifested warfare within our souls, and our flesh, our desperate, deceitful hearts, want nothing to do with it. And so we wrestle.

I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. (Rom 7.21-23 NLT)

[This] sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. (Rom 8.28-30)

Yet surrendering our unwise and unprofitable ways, habits, and attitudes is death because they have courted us patiently and we have loved them so: they have framed our sense and understanding of life. But coming into peace with God is of unparalleled profit in every way. We become sons and daughters of God by dying to what we (our flesh natures) want and by living for what He died for, allowing His thoughts to become our will.

Learning to love the divine will is this lifetime journey. It's my lifetime journey.

It takes patience and agreement with the Word of God to learn and accept His divine will, and just as importantly, time alone with Him, communing on which of our thoughts are acceptable to Him and what is not. In time, we discover what we must learn and accept and let go in order to fill the lack which will cause us to love His divine will.

This article continues in Path to Peace 4 - Humility, the Divine Will

This post is based upon my original Path to Peace series posted in 2018. 

Path to Peace 2 - Living the Divine Will

This is a continuation from Path to Peace 1 - Learning the Divine Will 

The essential "me," the spirit me - you cannot destroy it; you cannot kill it. I will live on forever. God has designed a body to carry the essential “me” around. But we must live in the understanding that we have a flesh-nature while we live in this mortal coil.

The sin principle, working through the flesh-nature, wants to stay alive and keep on kicking. My irrepressible flesh-nature still wants to do things “my way.” I do what I do because I like to do it (for pleasure) or I feel that I must (for fear - to avoid the penalty).

The flesh nature is armed, empowered, and in agreement with the sin principle; it has a processing system which has been armed by The (World) System. Good news: we can undo the thing before all is done.

Love the sinner (me), hate the sin (the affect of my actions). And let me state for those who say that once I am saved I am no longer a sinner: why then do I still sin? Let he who does not ask for forgiveness in his prayers to the Father cast the first Rock. I did not say that I love to sin, but there is something within me that certainly is continuing this horrific process. 

Put another way, Burger King is still open for business but we have to decide whether it will receive our business. If we decide to allow it, then the carnal-mind - the flesh-nature, enabled by the laxity of correct spiritual response - will drive traffic and produce evil. We must re-direct that traffic by a process called the renewal of the mind.

 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever. (Rom 8:13 AMP)

You must mortify not the flesh (our sin producing machinery), but mortify the deeds (actions). The flesh is a foregone conclusion: it shall return to the dust, and like a spoiled child who knows it will not get its way, it strives by the principle, "If I must suffer and perish then so should everyone and everything around me." If there is any doubt that this occurring, simply blink twice and look at the state of most affairs within and around us. Even the sham and mockery of what is called love is unraveling as people inexorably take an "I'm getting mine, to hell with you" attitude (note: Christians should flee this mindset).

We mortify the deeds of the flesh when we agree with God that He's right, when we stand still within the presence and grace of God and look at it and say, "that is wrong, and I surrender it, and especially my desire to do it, to you, My Lord, Healer, and Saving Grace." And when it takes us off of our course again, away from the direction of seeking shalom - peace with God - we turn our faces to Him and looking at Him we say, "that is wrong, and I surrender it, and my desire to do it, to you, My Lord, Healer and Saving Grace." And little by little our love for Him will break our hearts... and the attachment of the sin to our heart, and it will lose its power over us, overwhelmed by the gentle, burning love of a kind and beautiful creator God.

Self-peace comes when I do what I love and zealously avoid what I do not (“to thine own self be true”). Truth-peace comes when I am content with what God calls truth and I do that that which He loves and avoids and abhors what He does not. The Prince of Peace is the ruler of my heart, and I then know shalom, Soul-peace.

Continued in Path to Peace 3 - Less Me, the Divine Will 

Originally Posted Oct 25, 2018, revised July 19, 2021

Path to Peace 1 - Learning the Divine Will

Slowing. Things. Down.

The path to peace leads inward. Inner Conflict Management isn’t about learning a set of techniques, it’s about developing a way of life.

Things in life attempt to knock you “off of your square” because it’s in the things that you incorporate as routine that you find the most room to stretch, grow, move. Paradoxicaly, it's also the source of your confinement.

Routine is the intellectual space of your boxed activities, the “I do” drawn from your “I can”.

This morning, propelled by these thoughts, I meditated and prayed. Doing both: inner reflections, musings, weaving with conversation. Questions, some unwanted, answers, some unbidden, flowing in and out, touching, hanging, fleeing.

Slowing. Things. Down.

Self-mortification, what is it? It’s the “I” dying daily. But where some preach crucifying of self, Paul helps us to understand the process.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh (for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. (Rom 8:12-14 NET)

This is pretty important stuff because it’s tied to one of my favorite promises.

Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9 NKJV)

My thoughts looped around in this direction because my heart’s desire, my hope, is to be a peacemaker. Hard to do with so much conflict on the inside, though. Meditating on these things bought these two particular pieces of scripture into focus.

The sons of God are peacemakers because they have put to death the deeds of the body.

Self mortification isn’t about seeing the body, the flesh nature, as bad, but understanding it as evil. You may say, "Brother, you have just gone off on the deep end. What’s the difference?"

Bad describes the condition of an object. It’s often good for little or nothing. Evil describes the disposition of a being capable of action. This one has chosen to oppose the sovereign will of God, and this is because of self-will. The body or flesh-nature is opposed to God, and why is that important in this conversation anyway?

In Romans 7, Paul helps us to understand that evil stems from both the reality and principle of sin - the desire for self action and rule based upon our own sense of right and wrong (and indifference). For the renewed believer, there is constant warfare between the new, developing enlightenment of the spiritual mind and the fault-filled, base nature of the natural man, or the flesh aka the carnal mind. The flesh-state is energized by the reality and affect (pronounced a (as in bad) -fect = persistent recurring impactful events) of sin’s existence. Paul states that the flesh-state is one of death (leading to operational separation from the zoe or God-energized-life) but goes on to state that there is an answer. The flesh-state - the willful desires and parody of life of an individual un-energized by the presence and power of God - is weak to answer the problem of personal evil (the unregenerated thought process which still operates in antithesis to the will of God and is an enemy of the state of God's presence), and is essentially impotent versus the influence of sin.

In short, we can not merely will our faults and sinful nature away, because we are bound by a law that is at least as strong (and most likely stronger than) the Law of Fire which burns regardless of our will concerning the matter: no matter how we plead or beg or wish otherwise, without concern of law passed or decree uttered, fire burns. So, then, only a Creator-Law can overcome a Universal-Law (sin is sin, just like fire is fire, regardless of where or who you are).

The “law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” Free from the penalty of such. Free from the power of such. In short, the sin reality is dead (for me), the sin affect is powerless (against me) when I accept the liberty granted by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

Why, then, do I still sin?

“To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” (Rom 8:6 NKJV)

Because the sin principle is still alive and kicking. My irrepressible flesh-nature still wants to do things “my way.” Burger King is still open for business but we have to decide whether it will receive any business. If we decide to allow it, then the carnal-mind - the flesh-nature, enabled by the lack of vitality of the spirit man - will drive traffic and produce evil. We must re-direct that traffic by a process called the renewal of the mind.

Let's talk more about this in Path to Peace 2 - Living the Divine Will.

Originally posted 10/18/18

Path to Peace Intro - Letting the Divine Will

Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. (Phil 2.5 KJV)

Good morning self. Good morning God. It's been a strange journey - if I may use the word strange. It's hard to put it any other word. The standard church phraseology would be "It's been a good journey, praise God."

But I think I'm churched out; I'm pretty tired of me, too. To be clear, I'm tired of the false expectations that I put on myself and my church, and that church sometimes puts upon me; but I love God and His people and we have much growing to do together. I'm at a different place, a new place in my walk. It's hard to put directly into words. It's like looking into a cave and knowing what's in there. But the only way you're going to know what's in the cave is to search it out, to explore, to dig deep.

It's in the exploration - of ourselves, of others - that we make ourselves known, that we become known. A number of people know of me. There are very few that know me. While I know me, I barely know myself.

You're speaking in riddles, Mike, you're going in circles. Well, Yes, and No. Too many times, my life - our life - feels like it's going in circles.

The old saints used to say each round goes higher. It gets me to thinking. From God's perspective, are we going around in circles, or is He continuing to draw us higher, closer to Him? From a different perspective, that circle could be a spiral.

The Spiral of Grace

As we move along the spiral, we travel up in altitude. From one perspective, travelling in circles, from another, travelling while moving up or down. Good theory, right? Let's check it out.

We think that the earth is simply moving in an orbit around the sun. But the sun itself is moving, and so it's never in the same place. No matter how familiar the seasons look, we are spiraling along, moving further and further in our God-ordained destiny towards the promises that He has for us.

As often happens, the Children of Israel are very instructive for our own lives. We often relate to the children of Israel as just going in circles over the space of 40 years. I mean, yes, there's a lot of wilderness, but even walking slowly, one can cover a lot of ground in 40 years. And this was their punishment for their lack of faith, right?

But what happened over the 40 years?

During the time they were travelling around, they watched their children grow up, knowing that they wouldn't be able to enter into the Promised Land. Day after day, week after week, year after year they told their children of the exploits which led them to this state of affairs. And during they were fed with manna. Their shoes didn't run down. Their clothes didn't wear out. They were constantly reminded of the faithfulness of God, even in their unfavorable condition.

And then, they died.

Hundreds of thousands of people died over that forty year span of time. The faithless ones, the covenant breakers, those who failed to believe in the power of their God - which they had actually witnessed coming out of Egypt. But their hearts had been divided because they couldn't let Egypt go in their hearts. So God had to let Egypt die from among them. They had to let go and leave Egypt in order to trust God enough to let Him lead them to the Promised Land.

Each time they came back around to a familiar landmark, some would groan in despair. But many would nod in understanding and even contentment. As they grew older, and closer to the inevitable, watching their friends and family pass away because of their faithlessness, they did something remarkable. They passed the faith on to their children. Moses continued to speak and their testimonies became such that the children understood that God was a Great God who would keep his promises, all of them.

Every Round Went Higher 

Each round bought them closer to the Promised Land, once again. The faith of the children, now adults, was growing. It had to. Had they remained at the same level of faith as their parents, they would not have entered in. 

Even in what appears as our wandering, God is doing something in us because He is Faithful. He allows us to go through seasons and cycles in our lives to allow things to die in us, and as He does so, the weights and the sin that's so attractive to us fall off - or we throw them away, far away. So every round takes us higher. We often can't see it, but this is the necessity and the power of testimony. Testimony allows us to step back and see the vertical path of the spiral. It allows us to see that every round goes higher.

The journey is not overnight. Be content and be at peace,

[For] I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you. (Phil 1.6 AMPC)

Let go and let God; every round goes higher. Welcome to the Intro article to the Path to Peace, a 5 article treatise on coming to a place of true peace.

Previously published May 4, 2018

One Scripture Saint

The One Scripture Saint has learned that it’s better to get one thing right faithfully and exceptionally well, than it is to have 5 things “sorta right” and a dozen things hit and miss.

There are a few scriptures in the Bible that have incredible scope when it comes to spiritual warfare and "lifting up the hung down head." Phil 4.13 is one of those scriptures: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Feeling sad and want to come up? Feeling lost, can’t find your way? Feeling weak and tired of being beat down? Phil 4.13 has you covered: reading, meditating and speaking this scripture aloud can bolster you in a multitude of situations. 

I’d rather be a One Scripture Saint than a Hundred Scripture Ain’t…

It’s so easy to judge our habits and effectiveness by what we perceive as others’ successes or failures. God reminds us that he’s not looking on the outward appearance but on the inward places; he’s looking for our faithful submission to Him (1Sam 16.7, 2Cor 10.7). 

God also has a clear understanding of our limitations - far clearer than us. In fact, even our trials are not to “prove ourselves to God” but to prove the presence and power of God to ourselves and to the world through us - that we may prove [display through our lives -mh] what is that good, acceptable, and perfect [manifested -mh] will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you] (Rom 12.2b). 

Your flesh - given our inattention - will rise up above the threshold of “restrained” every single day. For the (spiritually minded) Christian, carnality is literally one unruly thought away, and the flesh will climb out of it’s watery grave and begin to terrorize your day. It’s why Paul warns us through his daily regimen: “I die daily” (1Cor 15.31). So he teaches us to mortify (make die) the thoughts and actions of the flesh (Rom 8.13).

If you’re just starting out a new habit or you’re reevaluating and strengthening your habits, you want to find out what works for you. God puts others in our lives to help us learn what’s right. The pastor teaches across the pulpit. An insightful minister or friend may kindly share what works for her. Another member of the flock may excitedly inform you of just how much they are doing (it may even seem like bragging, but don’t take it poorly - they’re often just excited, with hopes that you become excited as well!). Carefully and prayerfully evaluate what you're receiving through the lens of scripture and the counsel of wise associates.

What works for me may not work for you. I free you from that dead thought; you’re welcome. You don't have to be me. I'm pretty good at being me, I applied for and have successfully filled that job slot. But feel free to use what I have to the extent that it works for you. There's nothing new under the sun and if it is bringing life to me, I certainly didn't come up with it. That would be God working in me, giving me the desire and the power to do what pleases him (Phil 2.13).

My process may be reading or studying a few scriptures, prayer, fasting or even writing - like this article. And of course it’s good to mix it up and learn what combination really works for you. The point is to get your mind focused on God and to stay there until you know and understand that your heart is set on the things of heaven. You may only have to do it once a day. You may have to do it several times.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. -Prov 4.7

The power and wisdom of learning, leaning, and meditating on one scripture shouldn’t be overlooked. It’s much easier to remember in crunch situations, and dwelling on one scripture is like getting the marrow out of a really well seasoned bone. 

And once you’ve mastered that one? Well… one more couldn’t hurt.

Previously published May 4, 2018