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Katie, from Hile Design is working up a masthead for this here blog.  When she asked me if I had any design ideas, I mentioned Wilson the volley ball in my favorite movie, Cast Away. Katie chuckled until she discerned that I was serious at which point her countenance clouded.  Here’s the thing: Wilson is the best supporting actor in that movie, maybe one of the best supporting actors in all of film.  Tell me you weren’t sad when Hanks lost him out on the raft when he was leaving the island.  After the movie was over, I felt enormous pride in my last name.  I came very close to standing up in the theater to say, “I am Wilson!”  Of course, you never know how close you really are to doing something until you’ve done it.  Then you know you were close.  I think I was close, though.  What is it about Wilson in that movie?  He’s the guy who helps Hanks start the fire, remember?  He’s the guy who kept Hanks human, as a matter of fact.  ”I am because you are.”  African proverb.     

Starting a new sermon series in the new year on happiness…what got me thinking: several different women who when asked, how are you doing? replied, blessed! or I’m having a blessed day….people I don’t know, just running across in the course of a day. They’ve got some secret, these women. (The image was created by Jeff Hill.)

The beginning of the blogspel of ken wilson. And my question, of myself, to myself, is whether and to what extent candor is possible.  See, I’m a pastor.  It’s a job that will knock all the edges off you if you’re not careful. It’s a job that will make you excessively cautious if you’re not careful, until you become one noxiously inoffensive lump.  Don’t tell anyone who you voted for, for example.  Watch your language.  Keep a lid on it.  So this will be interesting, if only to myself.