This is my January Thanksliving page:
Tuesday, January 1, 2008. After a rocky start, I was able to go with Jif and LG to meet my brother and his family for lunch, halfway between our home and his home in Delaware. While we waited for a table, I learned some new things [...]
Archive for January, 2008
I’ve Been Thanking #3
Posted in Thankful on January 31, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Ten Things About Me #8
Posted in About Me, Faith, Family, WTF Disease on January 30, 2008 | 41 Comments »
(CAUTION: This one ain’t pretty. It’s kind of gritty. If you’re looking for witty, this is not the right city. Um…sorry. I’ll stop that now. But really, this is heavy. Especially the last one.)
71. Since reading blogs, I’ve encountered a lot of anti-Christian sentiment, passion, furor. [...]
Sunday Post
Posted in Sunday Post, WTF Disease on January 27, 2008 | 19 Comments »
“True freedom is being able to dance in your chains.” – Fredrich Nietzsche
Romans 8:35-39
John 16:33
Oops, he did it again
Posted in Can't Make This Stuff Up, Family on January 26, 2008 | 22 Comments »
The past few days, in addition to WTF Disease, I’ve been dealing with a sinus/ear/throat thing. Congested, stuffy, sneezy, bleeding from my eyes just generally miserable. So yesterday I asked Jif to pick up a few things at the store for me, including a jar of Vicks. Last night, I asked him [...]
Sunday Post
Posted in Sunday Post on January 20, 2008 | 15 Comments »
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Luke 6:27-36
Marital Conversations Our Parents Never Had
Posted in Can't Make This Stuff Up, Family on January 16, 2008 | 37 Comments »
On a car ride, playing with Jif’s fancy cell phone. Mine merely sends and receives calls, as far as I know. His could launch a nuclear attack, I think. I don’t know how to use it (I remain a techno-dunce). It’s called a Palm Trio (Palm Tree, OH!).
I push this button, [...]
Sunday Post
Posted in Sunday Post on January 13, 2008 | 18 Comments »
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen
Daniel 2:21-22
GPS (Gets Pretty Silly) in our Mini-van
Posted in Family, Hmm on January 8, 2008 | 28 Comments »
Y’all know I’m a techno-dunce. I didn’t know what a GPS was until my pastor mentioned it in a sermon, many months ago. She said (and I really like this analogy) that God is like a GPS system. God gives us ways to go, provides guidance, and sometimes we miss that guidance. [...]