Joel Vestal

If you were blind, how would you explain colors to a child?

Joel — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:04:27 +0000

Blind since birth, Ken Medema, sings a children’s song that I love. Very inspiring man…

Lessons for Life from an Eagle

Joel — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:00:59 +0000

Images of Beauty…Music of Beauty….a Man of Immense Beauty

Joel — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:10:18 +0000

Composed, written, and sung by Ken Meddema, blind since birth…

Rain Ripping

Joel — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:07:53 +0000

Rain races, Its restless rage.
Ripping like wind. round and round.

Rattles like
Rocks ripping through
The air.

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Joel — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:08:16 +0000

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Joel — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:30:07 +0000

does God give us what WE WANT ?

Joel — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:44:26 +0000

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.”

reflections…Life & Soul

Joel — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:30:30 +0000

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

Believing in Johnny Cash: An Open Letter to Atheists —Argument and Anger does not Change people…Hearing and Listening to other’s stories does.

Joel — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:41:53 +0000

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 us forward, wrecking finally in a joyous three-child pile on the den floor. We did it again and again until Dad finally sent us to bed.

Years later, when I was in college, I found Dad’s old guitar under his bed and pulled it out and began messing with it. Once I began to play, what came out was not Led Zeppelin or th

Angry & Cynical people

Joel — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:10:51 +0000

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