Can one word say so much ?
Can one word say it all ?
Can one word preach a sermon ?
Can one word write a book ?

Then I realized the book might not happen now.
And the sermon might be too long.
And, maybe there is food for thought in the outline itself.
I want the reader to think, not just read what I think (I do plenty of that).

As I wrote the following notes, two pertinent illustrations came to mind.
I forgot one before I could write it down.
And that makes me uncomfortable as a writer.
I’ll have to live, and write, without it.

Bull—Here’s the winner, that got this article going.
A trusted foreman for a wise cattleman was sent to an auction some distance away, to bid for a special bull to be sold on a certain day.
He was given enough money for bus fare both ways, and the max he could bid.
The bidding was intense, because it was a top-of-the-line bull.
As the bids approached the amount of money in his pocket, the foreman made a decision.
If necessary, he would add the amount of his bus fare home and his own money.
Sure enough, he won the bid and bought the bull.
But he had no way home, and only enough money for a one-word telegram to his boss.
He came up with the perfect one-liner in one word:
COMFORTABLE

That story may not leave you with profound insights, but you will remember COM FOR TA BLE and this article.
Comfortable—good, bad, ugly ?

Do we know what we want to communicate, what we must communicate, what matters most, to the people who matter most, ahead of time, before we know what is going to happen, no matter what happens.
Do we expect to communicate success in the things that matter most, because we will give everything we have (that is, everything that has been entrusted to us) to accomplish what we were sent here to accomplish ? ***

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Comfortable Culture
Comfortable America
Comfortable Lifestyle
Comfortable Military/Wars
Comfortable Retirement
Comfortable Theology
Comfortable Death
Comfortable Afterlife

x ? x ? x ? x ? x ? x ? x ?

Not so Comfortable ?

Comfortable Pioneers
Comfortable Soldiers
Comfortable Seniors (with limitations)
Comfortable Christians
Comfortable Lukewarm Christians
Comfortable Non-Christians
Comfortable Anti-Christians
Comfortable Hell

(and, more meddling)

Comfortable MAGA

Comfortable ANTI-MAGA

Comfortable TDS

Comfortable DDS

Most of my prayers are asking God to make my life easier, more Comfortable.

I usually want others to feel sorry for me or help me when my life is not Comfortable.

Without the sermon (the book) on Comfortable, on all the above—a few words from The Word, the bottom line:

“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion.”

“Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”

” ‘Take your ease . . .’—BUT GOD said, ‘Tonight your soul will be required of you.’ “

And there’s a boatload more from The Book, already written.

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*** “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a little; I will put you in charge of much.”

TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome

DDS – Daddy Derangement Syndrome