Cool! Kelly’s blogging, too. Check him out at www.firemusicman.blogspot.com.
Perhaps an afternoon of rest, but that’s about it. I didn’t go to the Sunday morning service today (basically, snowed in; my little car would have gotten stuck in the parking lot, and I didn’t feel like battling the drifts). I was thinking about what I wanted to do today and the answer was ‘rest’. And then I had to laugh. Sunday is technically supposed to be our day of […] Read More
“Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children. “Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can’t make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, […] Read More
Broken relationships are hard to take. There is a person who at one time I considered a friend. Along the way there was a difference of opinion between the two of us. It got so bad that a few months ago, a mutual friend met with us to help us ‘hear’ each other (because we were not hearing each other at all at the point). I thought the meeting had […] Read More
My good friend, Kevin Harms from Morden, MB, is now blogging. You can catch him at www.kevinharms.blogspot.com.
Matthew 7:7 says this: “Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened.” But I don’t think I’ve really believed this. Am I really allowed to ask for what I want? This verse doesn’t talk about all the “what if’s” that are in my head. ‘What if my motives are not […] Read More
“Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it […] Read More
I watched Hotel Rwanda the other night. It was a hard movie to watch. In 1994, over 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days, and the UN did not intervene to stop it. Western countries had the money and the resources to address the situation and yet did nothing. Why? The only thing I can come up with is that we are an incredibly selfish society. If it is not […] Read More
I am a ‘happy ending girl’. Whatever I watch, whatever I read – must have a happy ending. I love fairy tales; someone ‘saves the day’ and they live happily ever after. Absolutely NO killing off any of the main characters. For example, even though I can acknowledge that “The Titanic” was a well-made movie, I was completely ticked off at the end when they killed off Leonardo diCaprio’s character […] Read More
I read this today (see ‘God?’ on Monday, January 24, 2005) and it broke my heart. Memories of when I had to tell my oldest son (he was 5 at the time) that his father had died came back to me. I also know how extremely sensitive my son is about death and how fearful he is of people dying and leaving him. I cannot imagine what this little boy […] Read More