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My mother-in-law has been really sick the last couple of days as many residents of her retirement home have come down with the Norwalk virus.  So, my wife has been spending the last couple of days over there taking care of her.
Well, the girls (and the dog) have been missing their mom something fierce and [...]

Two things are going to be talked about in today’s blog.  I had always intended to write about some of the impact the movie Gran Tarino could possibly have on people and then driving home this afternoon another story caught my attention but they are both related a bit.
In Dallas recently a contest between two [...]

My father turned an age that I didn’t think for a long time he would ever reach.  (Not because I thought his health would cause him to die early–he is in such good shape I think he will outlast me and live past his 100th and the chances of me enjoying or seeing any inheritance [...]

What a moment the last few days have been–there is no way else to describe it but with these–

It is an amazing path that the nation below has taken over the last few years but we can keep going with this:

To see someone like Obama speak of hope instead of fear–Christians everywhere have been ringing [...]

‘What is truth?’  Pilate asked Jesus one day.  Pilate had sat on enough court cases to know there are so many different kinds of people all claiming to be telling the total truth.
Obi Wan Kenobi told Luke Skywalker after Luke found out that Darth Vader was his father instead of being killed by Vader as [...]

My dog was sleeping comfortably on her most favourite bestest spot to sleep in the world–on the top of the loveseat.  Here I was working on this week’s bulletin for the church and I looked up at the last moment and saw her do a little movement and all of a sudden she had a [...]

I really got a message last week.
Tuesday we had our monthly minister’s luncheon and the topic of the day was going to be about American taxes (a real stunner for me) but it ended up being a talk about preaching and making our way through the tough economic times we are going through.
Then I went [...]