CRITICAL NEED FOR PRAYER!

 

 
At this very moment, there is a critical need for prayer for the safety of our troops in Afghanistan.  Whether or not you feel we should be there is not the issue.  God is waiting for us to cry out to Him for HIS intervention.  He knows what needs to happen and it needs to happen [...]

My Dream Job

 
 
I would love to have a job as a bartender.  I realize that tending bar and Christianity don’t seem compatible.  In reality, I guess they aren’t.  I certainly wouldn’t want to be responsible for serving the drink which happened to be one-too-many. 
But I wish it were possible because I love people and I love [...]

Lucky Gray-haired Ladies

 
I envy gray-haired women.  Seriously.  It’s not that I wish I had gray hair.  I already do.  Anyone who knows me has seen it  peeking periodically from my center part and my temples.  
 
But I envy those sisters whose hair is completely natural.  Uncolored.  They have no worries about maintaining dyed strands.  They’re totally free from the whole thing -competition, color, maintenance… 
 
My [...]

Oxygen for Your Soul

 
 
I’m just curious.  Has anyone NOT heard of Susan Boyle yet?  I understand it’s had around 16 million hits already, and I wish I could include a YouTube video of her here, but apparently those videos have had the embed disabled.  Still…
 
 - If you want to smile…
 
 - If you love seeing the “underdog” triumph…
 
 - If you love witnessing [...]

Tea-d Off!

 
Every parking spot was taken…so people walked toward the gathering…crossing a bridge over the Cedar River. 
 
People made their statements through a variety of methods. 
 
 
 
 
Having greatly under-estimated, the Tea Party organizers were stunned by the turnout.                                                                                                                                     
 
Americans in every age bracket peacefully made their point. 
 This was in the middle of the day when most people are not available [...]

Hello Kitty

 
This is too good not to share.  I recently received the following story in an email.  No writer’s name was included.  If anyone knows its origin, please let me know so I can give proper credit.  In the meantime…enjoy:
 
THE KOHL’S SHOPPING TRIP
 
Clutching their Kohl’s shopping bags, Ellen and Kay woefully gazed down at a dead cat in the [...]

It’s Your Call – A Follow-Up

 
 

“Was it a once and for all watershed moment, w/ occasional tests to your resolve, or has it been a gradual healing?” 
 
I think DM’s  questions in his comment to my previous post deserve a follow-up.   I’ll try to do that without starting to rant… 
 
 First of all, DM, my answer is Yes. 
 
Yes, it was a [...]

Embrace the Stains

This is my favorite tablecloth.  It’s nothing fancy.  Not lace or linen, it’s just a cotton reproduction of one from the late ’40s or early ’50s.  It’s been laundered so many times it possesses that soft, used patina,  It looks vintage.
I cherish it because it reminds me of my aunt’s home which I loved to [...]

Invisible Hero

 
 
        Every morning he opens his eyes to a life in which no one knows he’s awake.  No one knows what time he gets out of bed.  No one even wonders.    He hears no “good morning.”  Only the silence of a second-floor efficiency which he accesses via wood steps on the outside of a house.  [...]

Watch and Pray

 
 
 
                George Gallop asserts, “The churches of America face no greater  challenge in this century
than overcoming Biblical illiteracy.”
 
Judges 17:6  “In those days…every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
 
       
 
        Only three days after taking office, President Barack Obama struck down the Bush administration’s ban on giving federal money [...]