Stupid Time Change. So much of the order of life depends upon waking up at a particular moment in order to be able to do a set number of things, like cope with reality, and not be so tired that it seems the world is going to collapse under the weight of sorrow. It seems ridiculous that this should have to be said in black and white, but somehow, every year, someone lounging in a grey and taupe office is... Read more
Good Evening! Thank you so so much for having me here, this evening, to speak. I’m really honored and I hope and pray that whatever it is that I’m about to say will be a help to you. Let’s just pray for a minute. O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. I’m pretty sure... Read more
One Elphine is making oatmeal and for some reason, known only to herself, decided not to really cook it, but to mush it around and serve it up, and so has had to put it all back in the pot, because everyone is screaming and crying. Did I really have to say, after telling her everything else, that she had to cook it long enough so that it would look and taste like regular oatmeal? Is that a thing? Where... Read more
My blogging this week has been lame because I'm not really supposed to be blogging at all. I'm supposed to be spending every spare minute working on a talk I'm scheduled to give tomorrow night at BU's intervarsity chapter large group meeting. I know it's not called large group any more, sob. That's just me being old. My topic is obedience, because they all, all those wonderful, clever BU IV students hate me. I know this because every time I'm... Read more
All of us, except maybe Matt, are beating back a cold. It's been three days of most everyone lying around and having no energy but with lots of coughing and sneezing. Nevertheless, we press on, hopefully not to fall way too far behind in school and regular life. We didn't finish school yesterday until Four O'clock, (hysterical sobbing) and then I started slinging ground beef around trying to make spaghetti and tacos at the same time. Because, you know, Taco... Read more
I did it. I cleaned the school room. It was the last room remaining from my week long clean which actually lasted two and a half weeks. And now everything that I cleaned before has been wrecked so I could go start again at the beginning, but I’m not going to, because I don’t hate myself that much. No, it’s regular school this week, but in a nice clean room, instead of shuffling piles of paper from one place to... Read more
Yay. It’s March! And we’ve just had a little more snow. Such a treat for us. It began to snow yesterday, at 6am, and continued to snow through the day, and here, this morning, it’s still snowing. It’s so charming and gray, the little white flecks swirling endlessly through the cloud laden sky. And! Don’t forget! Each of those flecks is a special unique snowflake, perfect and different and special and unique. What can a person do, faced with so... Read more
It's Friday, and Lent, so how bout a little beginning look at the Prayer of Jonah. Prolly lots of us, by now, have failed at whatever little sacrifice we thought we might undertake. I mean, you, not me. I determined to get Aldi Flowers every week and I am happy to report that I've done just that. You can come over and verify the level and depth of my personal holiness because they are sitting right there. But perhaps you... Read more
I’ve roughed out the bare outlines of my own funeral, should there be an occassion when I go on to the next life and you all are wondering what on earth to do about a service. My aunt had made some notes of what she wanted at her funeral, but they got jumbled with a lot of other paper in her house and they were only found by her daughters just the day before the service. God, of course, is... Read more
Let me begin by saying that it’s completely ridiculous for me to presume to write anything on this subject. (For those of you who had better things to do, today is a sort of continuation of yesterday’s average homeschooling day.) The first thing to keep in mind, when reading anything on this blog, is that I’m not awesome and everything is not awesome. The meme of this blog and my life is that I’m failure but God usually makes it... Read more
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