DAY 8 Woke up to some really bad news this morning. A close friend had suffered one of the hugest losses imaginable. Task: Weep with someone who is weeping. If you don't know someone personally that is weeping, then pick up a newspaper or go and visit a website, because there is enough corporate weeping going on that you can join - the families and friends of the missing airplanes, the people in the various [...]
Just heard that today is National Grammar Day. Only problem is they were not too specific on which nation so I'm claiming it. One of my pettest peeves has to be when people use the word "loose" when they are intending to mean the word "lose" - that always makes me just want to loose it. [where "it" is a fire-breathing dragon that will rain down burning molten lava upon the unsuspecting person who butchered [...]
People like to say that my wife and I look young, but you should have seen us when we got married on April 20, 2001. There is a picture from our wedding day on our dining room wall, and it serves to bring joy and laughter to many visitors. We were young, fresh out of college and ready to begin our adult life together. We have changed and evolved over the past twelve years. I’d [...]
if you don't know who Terry Pratchett is, then you should probably administer yourself a slap to the head. come on... do it... there, you go. much better Terry Pratchett is a man who i have never met [altho he did email me once] who has kept me thoroughly entertained for, oh since about 1983 when his first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published and 40 novels later [as well as others not [...]
DAY 7 In Matthew 6, the disciples of Jesus ask Him to teach them to pray and He responds with what has become known as the Lord's Prayer. Task: Spend some minutes today focusing on this one line from the Lord's prayer Give us this day our daily bread, Think of the relationship implicit to this request: Trust Expectation Need Faithfulness Provision Father Abundance Hope Thankfulness Enough Take some moments to think about your life. [...]
If i were to ask you what the best job in the whole world was, i doubt if anyone would respond, "Working with Lego" simply because, how is that a job? But if i were to tell you that for the last two months i have lived with someone whose job is working with Lego, your response is very much likely to be, 'Wow, that's the best job in the world!' So Aaron and Sarah [...]
DAY 6 Task: Take a listen[s] to this song, 'I will be blessed' by Ben Howard and think about who the person it is singing about for you... and then find some time in this day to let them know just how much they mean to you. "I Will Be Blessed" [Ben Howard] Oh my ghost came by Said who do you love the most Who you wanna call before you dieOh my [...]
Ro is my wife tbV's sister and this is one of the most incredible encounters you may ever read about: A couple months before Christmas, Aaléyah and I had the following conversation on the way home from school one day… Aaléyah: It's Jesus' birthday soon. Me: Yes. At Christmas time it is His birthday party. Aaléyah: I need to get Him a birthday present. Me: Yeah. Good idea! You know what gift He would love [...]
Ah, what a winner, Pastis. Tackles the big issues and all. If you are not a Pearls before Swine fan yet, this is a great one to start with and then click on some links to other strips at the bottom - this is some fun stuff: [For another Pearls before Swine strip with a touch of Dr Seuss, click here] [For a growing collection of some of my favourite recent Pearls before Swine [...]
When my friend Deborah's post on 'What my Single Friends would like their Married Friends to know' hit 1000 views, i figured that people were interested in what she had to say and so it would be worth seeing if she was up to writing a piece for the Taboo Topic on Singleness and turns out, she was... Stages of Singleness When I was 18 years old, I attended my very first Singles Camp. Contrary [...]