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Oct
3

What In The World Am I Doing?

That question could take all sorts of tones. I feel more in control, while at the same time less controlling; which I think is the natural turn of that correlation. controlling people are that way often because they feel so insecure about how little control they have in their lives. It seems to be a way of achieving sense and order inside a very chaotic existence. But the more sense one makes of life, the...
Jan
9

Fragments of Info

“Copper Currency Standard? While India is trying to accumulate gold reserves, China is going one step forward by buying up industrial metals on a scale that appears beyond the usual commercial reasons. Some believe Beijing may have made a strategic decision to stockpile metal as an alternative to US Treasuries and dollar holdings as it safeguards China’s industrial revolution, while the West...
Nov
13

… if there be any virtue

Praise the good things you experience in life, friends. It’s every bit as important as calling out the less-than-stellar moments. -Chris...
Jul
29

Fragmented Fisks: Gender Stuff

Fragmented Fisks: Gender Stuff When reading through the defended thinking in a debate, such as that on gender issues in the Church, you get to see the flaws in the reasoning. Or sometimes, the admirable case that is made for the view taken. Why not fisk a few of those, here? Some Denny Burk comments: God gifts us in ways that are specific to our gender. Christian women, for instance, are peculiarly gifted to minister to and to disciple...
Jun
16

Are Warts Normal?

I don’t know if that title is going to get me in trouble or what… or just mess with the search engines, but I have been thinking and thinking about that post topic that Parableman inspired, and I was not sure how my family “warts” would go over with “the public”. Thanks, Brian, for reassuring me that being together after all these years, and trying to have some...
Feb
24

Check!

From the Dictionary.com site: Word History: The words check, chess, and shah are all related. Shah, as one might think, is a borrowing into English of the Persian title for the monarch of that country. The Persian word shāh was also a term used in chess, a game played in Persia long before it was introduced to Europe. One said shāh as a warning when the opponent’s king was under attack. The...
Nov
6

It Ain’t Me

It Ain’t Me Facebooks attraction for some is seeing what level of fool you can claim for yourself. Won’t be me, babe. This is life? This is freedom? This is what the modern woman attains to? I don’t think so. Someone needs to relay the message. The dollar is down, and suddenly American money isn’t good enough. Why should advertisers representing American markets hire them, then. It isn’t as...
Nov
3

Weblogs Finalists Up and Spiritual FAQs

Weblogs Finalists Up and Spiritual FAQs This is about both separately, not entirely separated, but not altogether a single topic. First, I noticed that the finalists are listed and I started looking at the blogs represented in the religious blog category. So, of course, their blog topics and questions raised within their posts come to mind. This post is to give a heads up on voting and then, secondly, a place to record some questions that come...
Jul
31

Psalm 13- my life in a nutshell

Psalm 13 For the director of music. A psalm of David. 1 How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? 3 Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death; 4 my enemy will say, “I have overcome...
Jul
15

Back At Home

We went to a youth conference this week. The kids loved it, and since they are reading their bible more upon arriving home, I think it probably did some good. It gave me a chance to have some talk time with them, rarer since they have entered that early teen stage of angst-ridden separation anxiety that they seem to hit between 13 to 16. They want to talk to you, their parent, and they don’t –...
May
25

I Am Glad For Your Voice.. and other thoughts

I am so glad for the different input I get from others. I don’t think I was always that way,but it might be one of the assets of aging. Even when you take things with a grain of salt, sometimes you get a good meaty answer that switches on the old synapses in an electrical storm of new thinking. Perhaps I just appreciate it because I get weary of the problems of the world and listening to the...
Mar
3

Take a minute or two

Hootsbuddy asks for readers to consider the woman translator who survived the attack on Steven Vincent in Hootsbuddy’s Place: JOIN ME IN SUPPORT OF NOUR AL-KHAL. Please visit his blog to update on this situation. ====== Rodney Olsen has “discussions of body image” with Psychologist/Counsellor Genevieve Milnes. A link to an mp3 recording of the radio show. ====== You might want to read...
Mar
1

Forward March

Forward March March is a pivotal time of year. The foreboding “Beware the Ides of March” is a phrase we might hear and not know the full significance; but anytime we are told to “beware” it switches on an almost involuntary reflex. I looked the Ides up in Wikipedia, because I almost never remember what it stands for. ( I’ve looked it up before). It just means the middle of the month,...
Jan
10

Fragments of Bread in My Basket

Large Family Logistics: The Art and Science of Managing the Large Family “Resetting the Clocks”, biological clocks, that is. === Fragments from Floyd.com some of the most beautiful pictures on the internet. === Do you have your updated version of Firefox yet? It has spell check. A God-send for me. Spybot Search and Destroy is something I updated today as well. Ver. 1.4 is the one you want. ===...
Dec
21

Winding Down the Year

Christmas will be here in a couple days… and too quickly past. I asked for and got an early Christmas present: a membership to Curves, which if you haven’t heard of it is a women’s exercise place. I went for the first time this morning. It was pretty simple, which is what I wanted. I don’t have the time to go somewhere that has all the amenities. I want something to motivate me to...

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