Year: 2004

Just finished The Secrets of the Vine … the book I started a couple weeks ago and blogged about it briefly. Just wanted to say it was pretty neat. A quick read for sure, but still cool. The whole book is based on the 15th chapter of John, where Jesus was talking about his relationship…

In the midst of minutes of coverage of the amazing effects of Hurricane Frances pummeling Florida, there was a 2 second shot of two young teenagers jumping and splashing in the flooded street. What a cool picture of joy in the middle of pain. So much destruction, you’d think that everyone would be depressed and…

The topic of the communion meditation today was the hostage situation in Russia this past week. The tale itself is horrific… over a hundred kids dead, shot in the back as they tried to run away. Just really heart-wrenchingly sad… He briefly described the situation leading up to it. The tiny region of Chechnia (who…

Did you ever think about who is coming after you? How your life will affect not just those in your path today, but those 3 or even 4 generations from now? The small things we choose and do today could have far more impact tomorrow than they do today. 🙂 I was reading Matthew today,…

I am on the hunt. Hoping for the kill. My prey is a selfish, annoying, too-much-time-on-his-hands fellow who likes to pester other people with technological loopholes. I mentioned the spam issue the other day… well, it’s not officially spam. It’s “spoofing”. Spoofing is where someone sends out email that appears to be from a different…

Just for fun… was thinking about this tonight… I have the craziest sense of smell! I can smell things most dogs can not. Just did it tonight. Someone in a restaurant we were patronizing had grape gum or something and I could smell it over all the other stuff! Crazy! I also have an acute…

We sang at a coffee house tonight, here in Clarence Center – our old stomping grounds – and some friends we have not seen in a long time were there. (Marie, I’m going to put you in here by name since you said I didn’t blog about the last time we saw you guys….) 🙂…

I really can’t believe how much game playing there is in life. Really. From early in our life, we are prone to making life a game. Sometimes that’s ok. Games are fun. But not when you make life a contest with everyone else to see if you can gain the upperhand. For example, watching the…

I hate spam. It is so frustrating when selfish people use a great thing for harmful or just annoying purposes. With our email addresses being published so widely because of what we do, we receive probably a hundred spam a day. Most are caught by our mail program filters, but probably 20-30 get through still….

Wow. I don’t really have much energy to share this right now, but I really really want to! A while back, a missionary friend of mine IMed me and asked if I knew of anyone selling or getting rid of a snake (a bunch of cables used to run a sound system from a distance,…