My Own Thoughts

Cranach suggests making it Missionary Day, since St. Patrick was a missionary. I’m all for that. One funny piece of missionary history is that Augustine was sent by the Pope to the Angles/Angels and when he arrived, King Ethelbert took him to Queen Bertha’s Christian church. Sometimes God (and Christianity) precede the missionaries.

Scribal Terror discusses the fact that smiths were considered magicians. He begins with a prayer from St. Patrick: I invoke today all these virtues Against every hostile merciless power Which may assail my body and my soul, Against the incantations of false prophets, Against the black laws of heathenism, Against the false laws of heresy, [...]

Marinate meat in: 1 TBS soy sauce 1 tsp Splenda 1 tsp rice wine vinegar 2 tsp sesame oil Cut up garlic and onion. Cook in oil. Add mushrooms and bell peppers and jalapeno. Add more oil. Cook meat till just done. Add all together. Eat.

In fact, he’d like them to relocate an Army base to his backyard, so he can be a soldier all the time. That the Army can’t do. But the Army offered to help Make-a-Wish foundation, if someone wanted to be a soldier. And one little boy, with kidney disease, said that was his dream. Not [...]

According to Life Site News: The bill SB 182 states that hospitals must supply any “essential health service.” The government department of health is free to determine what “essential health service” is and can remove a hospital’s license for failing to offer any such service. Thus, SB 182 would allow the government to declare abortion [...]

Breakfast= 5 oz meat/eggs 2 small carbs Lunch= 5 oz meat/eggs 1 small carb Snack= 2 oz nuts or cheese or a combination of themOR 1 fruit helping (1/4 apple, 1/2 cup blackberries, 3/4 c fresh strawberries) and 2 TBS peanut butter Supper= 5 oz meat/eggs 3 small carbs What is a small carb? Veggies [...]

begins for me tomorrow. Based on their description, it should take me three months to be at my goal weight. And supposedly I will have upped my HDLs. And hopefully I will be able to lower my thyroid medicine.

We didn’t do any waving of palms or dancing in the aisles at church. But just the memory of those things brings me to thoughts of what the Jews felt when Jesus was coming on a donkey.

“Worship is forgetting what’s wrong with you and remembering what’s right with God” (67). Instead of complaining, worship. “I’m convinced that the people God uses the most are often the people who have experienced the most adversity. This isn’t necessarily what I want to write, and it isn’t necessarily what you want to read, but [...]

Here I decided to give up reading romance novels for Lent. It was such a leap of faith, because I don’t have a lifetime of experiences with Lent. But it has been a blessing. I’ve done more reading and praying. Maybe because that time of romance novels was filled with Jesus. I didn’t know you [...]

Holy God, righteous, worthy. Your wisdom is more than all of man’s through all ages. Your hope is more than all other hopes. Thank you, God, for creating us. Thank you, God, for making us part of your plan. Thank you, God, for loving us. Thank you, God, for my husband and my sons. Thank [...]

We had three answers and three questions. Two of them said M should go to church with us. My answer, which I wasn’t sure of, was the one that sent him to his old church again. God, please forgive me for not listening rightly, if that is what I did. Please protect M as he [...]

I now have a new hero, besides Dielli. It is Benaiah son of Jehoiada. Thanks, Mark Batterson, for introducing me to him. “God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go” (30). One of the reasons God is great is because [...]

Wow. It’s hard to believe the book is over. I enjoyed it. It didn’t speak to me a lot in some places and in others it was burning coals on my head. (Sometimes those coals snuck up on me, too. I was reading thinking, “I don’t have this problem.” Then I’d read the questions and [...]

Well, that stinks. I’ve been singing this one song for days, but now that I actually sat down to put it on my blog, I don’t remember what it was. CW song about a dad who was a pilot in the war. His brother died. Son goes off, gets married, sells his sports car, has [...]

I love reading. I love a challenge. I’m not quite as partial to spring (being an autumn person), but it is my second favorite season. March 20th, just a few days from now, and I will need to have a list of books I want to read. I know I want to read more mysteries. [...]

What reminders of mortality have you encountered this week? How do you usually feel when you face these little reminders? Allergies are getting bad. I notice them a lot more the last few days. I keep thinking I will quit eating nightshades, but I do it anyway. Most foods I really like are nightshades. However, [...]

Think of a recent experience when your spiritual beliefs led to a practical application of serving others. What need in others did the experience meet? What need in you did it meet? I am not sure this is what the Shooks are talking about, but recently I spent $300 to get three rooms cleaned and [...]

To God’s glory, living life fully. mrschili had a post asking for your autobiography in six words. This was my attempt. There are some very great ones there including: I took a trip to fabulous. I am myself and that’s enough. Boldly going where hearts laugh freely. I arrived at her blog via Heros Not [...]

How important is comfort to you at this stage of your life? What convenience would be hardest for you to give up? I have to admit I was pre-prepared for this by a story. But my answer to what convenience would be hardest for me to give up would be… indoor flush toilets. Story: A [...]