It’s Friday so that’s Takes. One Looks like they’re narrowing in on a diagnosis for my dad–a huge answer to prayer, though possibly a botheration that requires more than a pill to cope with, I’m not sure. He’s being very well looked after by some top physicians in their own fields, and his insurance company sent him a large bouquet of roses. The miraculous thing for me, right now, is WhatsApp, which is free for me and for my mom... Read more
I think it is devastating to watch a man live and then to die completely outside the knowledge and love of God. Read more
The creative genius behind this little bunny, Beatrix Potter, knew how to take the very small, the ordinary troubles of life, and poignantly illustrate them, putting them in little books that would fit in the chubby hands of a small child, pouring into perfectly chosen words the pathos and the humor of the very small. Read more
Praying is not a magical activity. You don't pray with deep fervor and then necessarily and automatically receive the rewards of your work by God giving you the thing you want. Read more
Good Morning. Sorry for skipping the podcast last week. Hopefully today’s episode, (episode, ha) completely makes up for that negligence. This time is about politics in the church, the NFL, opening those subscription boxes, and me trying to understand the whole pledge of allegiance thing. Hope it makes this overly hot day cool and refreshing. Let me see, do I have any links… Here is my favorite song with new words that are completely true. This was an interesting and... Read more
At the center of the gospel is the longing for the one who comes after you, the waiting all your life for someone you only get a glimpse of now. Read more
Then, decked out in cream, lipstick, and scarf, the lady turns once more to the camera, expresses her deep joy, and offers you a discount code. Read more
Oh, so Today is the first day of fall. My bad. It’s confusing because of it finally being the summer we never had. How was I to know? One I mean, for real, it must be an act of God, because I was trying to gear up to face getting out the winter clothes, but I was pretty sure I didn’t have it in me. Not only does that mean getting all the bins down and picking through them, but... Read more
A Happy and Blessed Rosh Hashanah to all those celebrating today. Is that the word? Celebrating? Or Observing? I read Michelle Van Loon’s excellent Moments and Days (I recommend it highly) and I already can’t remember. That’s the problem with me. I read interesting and clever books and then I really need to immediately go back and reread them, because I have the mind of a sieve, or even a flea. It is completely discouraging. I could read the same... Read more
Ah, the gentle sound of children squabbling with each other in the morning. Wednesday is piano lesson day–four children laboring away one by one, massacring Pachelbel, Mozart, and Star Wars. Incidentally, its hard for me to find words of express how much I loath Canon in D. To quote that funny ranting guy on YouTube, “I’ll see you in hell Pachelbel.” Feel really terrible about dropping off My Own blog, and not even podcasting or doing links or anything. But... Read more
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