From the monthly archives: October 2009

The Flu

On October 28, 2009 By

We’ve heard so much about the flu this year with its new forms and the effects peo­ple have felt, rang­ing from a fever to even death.  There’s another strain of the flu going around that can be just as deadly, but the symp­toms may not be as read­ily appar­ent.  It is eas­ier to see this […]

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Side note: The Prodigal Son

On October 27, 2009 By

Read Luke 15:1132, then continue…

I’m sure if you’ve been around my blog for very long, you will have become famil­iar with my read­ing of Sur­prise Me by Terry Esau.  A great book, cap­tur­ing the essence of grow­ing closer to God by wait­ing patiently on Him and His tim­ing.  The main con­cept is […]

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What if…?

On October 27, 2009 By

What if God treated us the way we treat oth­ers — would you still be here?

Char­ity suf­fer­eth long, and is kind;” 1 Corinthi­ans 13:4

If you don’t have char­ity, you will profit noth­ing.  In this pas­sage (see link), char­ity is defined as love — a love that comes with no […]

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Getting ready …

On October 26, 2009 By

…Pre­pare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every val­ley shall be filled, and every moun­tain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the sal­va­tion of God.” Luke 3:46

I read the […]

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A recommendation:

On October 25, 2009 By

I just fin­ished watch­ing Will Smith in, “The Pur­suit of Hap­py­ness”.  Yes, I know hap­pi­ness is spelled wrong.  I can only do as good as the movie writiers.  Watch and see.  As you watch this movie (which I highly rec­om­mend) remem­ber that chas­ing the Amer­i­can dream shouldn’t be about fix­ing symp­toms or achiev­ing and accomplishing […]

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Quote of the day

On October 23, 2009 By

Repub­li­cans will do every­thing in their power to stop [health care] reform this time because for many on the other side there will never be a good time to reform health insur­ance. As for­mer Sen­ate Major­ity Leader Bob Dole said a few days ago, and I quote, ‘Some­times peo­ple fight you just to fight you,’ […]

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Keeping Up

On October 21, 2009 By

In case you though I’ve stopped writ­ing, you’re mis­taken.  How­ever, I am try­ing to keep up with every­thing else, and that takes some of my writing time.

Have you asked God to sur­prise you today?  I’ve noticed that after 30 days, I’ve strug­gled to remem­ber to ask for the spe­cial sur­prises from God, but He keeps on […]

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Change I Can Do

On October 14, 2009 By

There’s a lot of fuss over changes in our envi­ron­ment — global warm­ing, defor­esta­tion, human waste, etc.  I won’t say that any of these are not valid thoughts to look in to, but I don’t think it’s all just how it seems.  Do your own research.  Pay atten­tion to what’s going on around you.

I […]

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