most of the men I am blessed to serve with
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
contrast
The baby is Natalie Rose, she is about 12 hours old in the picture to the left. The lady is Betty Stipe she is about 76. The date is January 1, 2000.
We lived next to Miss Betty for about 4 years,until she passed away in '01. She was quite a character:) I'll be posting a few memories of her over the next few days, she made for some interesting stories :)
I'd like to invite my girls to send me their favorite memories of Miss Betty so I can post them here.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
green notepads and such
I have been astonished and delighted by the way Deanna and Kaitlyn (my two eldest) have taken to writing.
In order to encourage them in their creative writing pursuits I have decided to give them a few creative writing assignments. I plan on randomly picking several things that are unrelated and have the girls each write at least a paragraph combining all three.
My wife and I will be joining in every now and then as well. The title of the post is derived from the first assignment. I told the girls to combine the following:
1.) a green notepad
2.) a cold room
3.) beginning
Kim and I have decided to join in the fun as well. Kim has posted hers here and Deanna here. Kaity and I are still working on ours. So enjoy the "green notepad project" qnd let us know how creative you think we are ;)
a legacy worth having
One of the things I am deeply grateful to God for is having parents who were not afraid to ask for forgiveness.
My parents were very self-conscious about asking each other for forgiveness in front of the kids AND asking the kids to forgive them, when relationships went a bit awry (as they are apt to do when you have a WHOLE family descended from Adam and Eve :) .
As I grow older I appreciate this more and more. I have seen families who have no idea how to bring closure to disagreements and/or they bring closure between the offender and offendee but never bother to ask the innocent bystanders (read kids) to forgive them. When this happens it leaves children bewildered, confused, depressed and angry to say the least.
Not in our house. My parents never mistook modeling humilty in front of their children for weakness. Thank you LORD of lords for a Christian heritage!
I see now that my Mom and Dad went out of their way to give me a good idea of how a Christian resolves sin in his/her life. This model of humility is a legacy worth having ... I pray I will sucessfully pass this on to my little ones as well.
Monday, September 26, 2005
AARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
So I finally get ambitious on the house ..... Trying to get 2 little rooms textured ....Do you know how hard it is to estimate how much mud you need when you actually texture every oooooh
3 years or so?
There we are 11 pm rolling up on us ...the kids are getting emotionally incontinent over in the other room ...and out of mud we ran ....
2 and nine tenths walls finished out of four ...
Oh well the Lord knows our frames ...by the time we got everything cleaned up we were looking down the barrel of midnight .... I'm glad I didn;t have that extra box of mud afterall I'd have been up till 2 texturing ....
we still have a shot ar getting it under paint by Saturday!
Please pray that God will give us all renewed endurance as we crank up the construction project again.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
well duh
NEWS FLASH
Chinese News Agency reports that "Boys are dirtier than Girls
has ANY girl you have EVER known doubted it?
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!
There are unconfirmed reports of a missing tooth in the Pipe Creek area .......witnesses claim it might be the first for the girl in question .....details to follow......
the real question on everyone's mind is .....did she cry?
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
word verification
I have quite a few friends and family types who have of late begin blogging.
HERE IS A BIG HUGE FYI for you newbies. My wife told me about it a couple o weeks ago and it worked like a charm.
For blogger users only: In the settings menu of your blogger dashboard there is a link for comments and under that there is a yes or no option for "Show word verification for comments? "
Check "yes" ...this will virtually eliminate comment spamming.
alacazam! and other strange thoughts
Greg Wilbur over at Kingsmeadow.com's art and culture blog has some great thoughts on men who immerse themselves in Scripture...
but then wants to be able to equivocate between miracles and magic in the very next post ....
is it just me or was it the Scriptures that said MAGIC IS BAD ?
and here
and here ....
and this too :)
I still haven't heard anyone from the "magic in Harry Potter falls under Christian Liberty" school of thought answer Doug Phillips assessment of the situation the best anyone (Hi Thomas) can come up with is the "Oh yeah well you like Tolkein and Tolkein has Magic too" defense.
Now maybe he does and maybe old Tolkein doesn't have magic in his writing, to that I say ---- WHO CARES!!!! Any presuppositionalist worth his salt will recognize that when we are talking about magic in literature,the root issue changes not - no matter who the author is!
I will give up Tolkein if I must but that does not change the sinfulness or lack thereof wrt Harry Potter.
Savy?
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Random bit o coolness for the day:
the guys over at google have done it again check out google earth's illuminated continent!
(I'm glad I have broadband at work:)
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I over heard Focus on the Family's radio show today and Dobson and Company was on a pretty good rant about black culture, liberals and the higglely pigglely the feds have made in New Orleans. it's worth a listen click HERE to listen. Now I don't agree with everything the good Doctor says but I think they hit the nail on the head more than once in this broadcast.
I also found Texas Public Radio's last segment on Katrina's impact on the SA area to be a startling dose of socialism after hearing the Focus broadcast but also the hurricane victim interviews made me realize how much opportunity there is for Christ's church to reach people if we are willing to live the "Strenuous Life" and come out of our bubbles a bit.
One guy livin' the life is Ken Kennedy over at Only a Servant ministries. He is teamed up with Vision Forum and is going to shift his focus from Mexico to Louisiana for the next little bit and (re)build some houses in the States.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
wonderfully totally Dahl
"I'm going shopping in the village," George's mother said to George on Saturday morning. "So be a good boy and don't get into mischief."
This was a silly thing to say to a small boy at any time. It immediately made him wonder what sort of mischief he might get into.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
overheard regarding female "clergy"
...like a men's wrestling team in robes with an inferiority complex .
Monday, September 12, 2005
A family tradition continues :)
I will always remember dreading ;) my father marching up to the bedrooms at the crack fo dawn (when only grasshoppers and chicken were waking) and throwing on the lights in the childrens bedrooms and singing the first verse of "Arise my Soul Arise" at the top of his lungs.
To which most of us were apt to reply "Proverbs 27:14" :)
flash forward 20 or so years
I have recently began "blessing" my children with the same method of calling them forth. Now imagine my suprise and delight the other morning when I hear my Becca (pic at the left is about a year old) marching about the house quite stridently and singing to her sisters at the top of her voice
"arise YOUR soul arise ...."
Yes God is good.
A tradition survives to another generation.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Friday nights
coming home
near dusk.
long week
longer drive
no one hears me pull in
lights at the top of the stairs
door opens
arms open wider
wide smiles glow
God is good.
random thought about how i'd like to write
i am interested in learning to capture emotion in written communication
there are plenty of truth tellers
there are plenty of deep thinkers and deeper writers
there are not so many writers who deliver objective truth in a way that communicates truth to your GUT and your head.
i want to be decidedly not gnostic
i want to be a writer that can capture the feeling you get when .... well if i knew how to describe it i would be the writer i want to be .... i want to be able to communicate life changing truth to your HEART/Liver/gut and not just to your head
most of all i want to know how to do it so i can teach seven little bright smiles to do it so that they can teach it ....etc, etc ......
that is a legacy worth having
Monday, September 05, 2005
Sunday, September 04, 2005
can't get much more atypical......
Picture this .....
a family of nine opening their not quite 1200 suare foot home to four other families for a Birthday celebration for the 2 youngest of the clan.
Now picture this....
the four other families have a combined total of eight more "less than five year old" children to add to the fray....AND it's hot ehough on this early texas day that NO ONE not even the adults want to go outside.
Get the picture?
Now for the final element .... we fed them icecream BEFORE supper ..... pictures to follow.
It was the most (and loudest ) fun we have had in our house for a while. I'm glad I married a fearless woman :)
this is more surreal
from the army times ....
Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans
By Joseph R. Chenelly Army Times staff writer
NEW ORLEANS — Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”
Jones said the military first needs to establish security throughout the city. Military and police officials have said there are several large areas of the city are in a full state of anarchy. ....
Anyone for a larger welfare state?
I know let's teach poeple to be less self-reliant and to be MORE dependant on the state!
Friday, September 02, 2005
Wow this is surreal
I paid $3.19 per gallin today for gas. I suddenly long for the days of $1.87 per gallon.
Granted I bought Super Deluxo Supreme with a half gainer but it still boggles the mind.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Call her blest
The prettiest girl in the world has her own blog now .... inashoe.blogspot.com check it out :)
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