Independency

 It's our turn.

Living Well

 Depends on your parameters.

If it's financial, it might be one can budget even a small amount.  Or one can accommodate more correspondingly.  

Wants and needs can be determined along the way.  

It could be driving a beat up car built like a tank and good on mileage compared to a gas guzzling sportster.  

It could be a matter of quality/quantity.

But it's not just financial.

Seeking like minded people and a quest for Freedom factor in.

Forgiveness, ie, letting go hatred helps.  Keeping your neck on a swivel and never forgetting are essential.  Being kind to oneself is too.  That is, not browbeating but asking forgiveness for one's own mistakes.

This is NOT some false salve for those in any position in life.  It is to be lived by all.

Explore love and doing good w/o recompense.  Random acts as it were.

Guard Freedom and Light and teach the young all these things.

When it comes time, transition in the same way.

Living well?

Being well.

Cover...

 The cover attracts.  What's within may vary.  The cover can be a world within itself.

Very few Playboy covers inspire imagination.  Make what you want of the mag pics included.

February 1963 cover is a rarity.

A dreamlike girl (old timey ref to young women) sipping champagne.  The glass reflects an urban skyscape.  I call it a prelude to a kiss.  No ref to any play/movie.

No morality here.  Just the cover.  If you read PB judge for yourself.  I don't base my life on it.  It's just a factor within so many in a kaleidoscope.

It comes back to affluence/wealth.  Of itself it is neither good nor evil.  It's how you acquire and what you do with it.  

Remember you can't take it with you.  OTOH while here we can enjoy material things.  ONTOOH 'what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?'.

Living well is subject to definition.  It'll be covered soon.

Suffice it to say a lot of living is ignored aka the spiritual.

Then again a lotta folks don't believe the spiritual.  Pick your path.

There's more.

We'll delve past the cover.

We'll see next time.

1st Lutheran

 On 12/24/24 fire swept through the former 1st Lutheran Church downtown Indy, gutting the building.  

Since decommissioning, it has been a party venue place, offering facilities for receptions and other gatherings.

Learning of the tragedy, I was gob smacked with shock and grief.  It was the first place I served as a student assistant, including many church duties.

When I came along, the church was about to close and move.  The old tale of urban blight was taking churches  and much more away.

So many memories.  Helping the area kids and offering Sunday school.  Ministering to the growing elderly congregation.  Getting to know the people, many friends.  Work in the hood and ministering to shall we say people of the night.

My first sermon was there.  It was 20 minutes lol.  They got shorter and pithier -s-.

The congregation voted to stay.  They survived only a few years when I left.

It was the first Lutheran church downtown, under the name of Mt Pisgah.  It fostered 5 more in the area, which survive.

I won't detail but I'm chock full of memories; loving, sweet, bitter, sad and joyful.

I was proud to serve the Lord there.

We hosted the Syrian Orthodox church for a while.  I learned their name, Arabic for God.  Made many friends.

Campus ministry was one of my specialties and worked with St Bridget's Catholic church.

The fire was total with an emergency demolition that morning.

I don't think they'll find the cause.

I used to preach we must not contain ourselves just within 4 walls.  We must reach out everywhere.

So it was at 1st.

The building is gone.

But not the faith.

God's love lives forever.