November 4, 2011
Blind since birth, Ken Medema, sings a children’s song that I love. Very inspiring man…
November 1, 2011
Composed, written, and sung by Ken Meddema, blind since birth…
October 6, 2011
Rain races, Its restless rage.
Ripping like wind. round and round.
Rattles like
Rocks ripping through
The air.
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October 3, 2011
September 26, 2011
looking and talking to GOD. we do not always get what we ASK ~ WANT ~
“I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity and God gave me brawn and brains to work.
I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome.
I asked for patience and God placed me in situations where I was forced to wait.
I asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for favors and God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted,
I received everything I needed.
My prayers have all been answered.” (more…)
September 21, 2011
Life is house of many windows - where we all sit gazing, waiting, showing ourselves and crying to those who pass by to come and notice — speak our name — Love us
The soul is a sail on a ship. Wind comes from the north yet we need to navigate south- the adjustments of the sail must occur no matter the calm or swiftness of the wind (more…)
September 14, 2011
A few months ago in this magazine Peter Laarman pointed out that arguing doesn’t change people’s views: “Hearts and minds don’t change that way. They change when we share our stories…”
This seems true to me, but I found myself wondering if a scientifically-motivated atheist would feel the same way-I have long suspected that some atheists may be ill at ease with stories.
Before I say why, I need to say a few words about Johnny Cash, who died on September 12, this week, eight years ago.
Why Johnny Cash Matters
What is your earliest musical memory? Mine is: One evening in about 1973 my dad put Johnny Cash’s “The Wreck of the Old 97″ on the turntable just before bedtime and let us run fast around the den-living-room-kitchen loop. He turned it up. We ran faster and faster as the nearly out-of-control sound of Old 97 pushed (more…)
The presence of angry and cynical people decreased time of your expected life span. Jack Nicholson in some film said, ”Cynicism is the cousin of anger..”
“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun.To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back. in many ways it is a feast fit for a king.The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself.The skeleton at the feast is you.”
Frederick Buechner (more…)
