Going Away for a While

November 30th, 2008

Because of the love and friendship of others, I and my wife will be spending a week on a tropical island with no cell phones, computer hookups and only one telephone. We will have to take a boat to another island if we need to go shopping, or need medical attention. We are [...]

The Ecumenical Quote of the Year

November 28th, 2008

“Before being Catholic, Orthodox, Syrian, Armenian or Protestant, we are Christians.”
from the Turkish Episcopal Conference letter to the Turkish churches living in fear.

Thanksgiving With Blessings

November 24th, 2008

This is the time of year when we share with thanksgiving. In America we have a holiday to give thanks to God because our earliest settlers survived their first harsh winter in the land. My ancestors arrived in the following Spring but share in the grace of God that led them to come [...]

Prop 8 vs. the Worship of Baal (Flesh)

November 11th, 2008

I try and stay out of politics on this site but I’m lying awake all night because of the attack on Moral Rights here in California. The majority of voters in California voted to keep the word marriage to mean that is it a union between a man and a woman and the homosexual [...]

I Choose to Memorize a Bible Chapter

November 9th, 2008

Tonight(Nov 9, 2008) our Bible Study/Worship group desided to try and memorize one chapter of the Bible each. We were to pick one that we were not familiar with and one that we had not already studied this past year.
One ambitious young man chose to learn three psalms (22, 23, 26), but most of [...]

Quotes: Nov 08

November 7th, 2008

For who has known the mind of the Lord,or who has been his counselor? Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid? (Romans 11:34-35 ESV)
A house is built of logs and stones,
Of tiles and post and piers;
A home is built of loving deeds
That stand a thousand years. — Victor [...]

Pray for Victims of Cancer

October 21st, 2008

Two of my friends, Wendy in Australia and Grace in the Desert, are suffering from cancer. Both are doing poorly right now. Wendy is in the hospital with a high fever and Gracie is weak and in much pain.
I ask for prayers for these two people and for all the victims of cancer [...]

Oct. Quotes

October 14th, 2008

Oct 16, 08
The eagle was once nothing but an egg, but what we know about the nature, the meaning, the possibilities of that egg had we never seen the eagle soaring in splendor against the sky?
–Anon
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisable sun within us. Thomas Browne
Now Hope does not [...]

A Year on the Blog

October 13th, 2008

October 17. 2007 I posted my first blog. It is hard to beleive that I have been writing for a year now. Over the last year I have posted a lot more than I thought I would and at the same time,I want to post so much more.
Of all the postings the single [...]

Orchids in the Desert

October 6th, 2008

This past weekend, I and my wife went with her Red Hat group to the Landers Orchid Festival in (of course) Landers California. Many times I have tried to grow orchids and have failed every time. Because I love them so, I wanted to learn from professionals who lived in the desert just [...]