How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Use plants to bring life

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.

Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.