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January 2007

January 14, 2007

Let all the whole world praise the Lord

Its raining so not very many people came to church. Must confess that I didn't...

January 13, 2007

Saturday

Matt finally got sick the beginning of this week. After avoiding it for nearly a...

January 09, 2007

Whose Name

I'm on my fourth cold and cannot think clearly in this fog. However, it doesn't...

January 08, 2007

politics

I never intend to get going on politics--avoiding the issue at all costs at church...

January 05, 2007

Six Fings to do Today

1. Looking at the bird cage for a couple of hours.2. Besuring the cookies are...

January 04, 2007

Plague, pestilence, mayhem and other general evils

Arrived home Tuesday at midnight after fully three plane rides, three airports, and hundreds of...

January 02, 2007

Home again Home again

We're rushing around trying to get ready to go home again. The children have watched...

December 2006

December 31, 2006

Daily Visitation

Here is my sermon from Christmas Eve/Advent 4. Given that it was a light and...

December 30, 2006

Manifesto

So here we are in Texas. And, Of Course, we’re very comfortable. Matt’s mother has...

December 29, 2006

There was no reading

Had to leave the bookstore in virtual disgrace due to the screaming of many children....

December 29, 2006

So we’ve been shopping with all the children. And now we’re going to go to...

December 27, 2006

All the Little Children

We are, for the week, visiting Matt's parents. There are a total of five children...

December 27, 2006

Merry Christmas

Here we are all, in Corpus Christi, TX, the place of Matt's growing up and...

December 23, 2006

rearranging the deck chairs

I see now that my discouragement yesterday was merely, as it were, a foreshadowing of...

December 22, 2006

I’m tired of all the emotionalism.Everywhere I go—on the web, in my class, at coffee...

December 19, 2006

How do I look?

I’ve been obsessively looking at pictures of women in “modest feminine dress”. You can find...

December 18, 2006

Happy “Holidays”

Made the awful mistake of watching a movie called the Family Stone a few nights...

December 16, 2006

Marriage as a Mystery, Husbands, Wives, Christ and the Church in Ephesians 5:22-33

I had planned to be efficient today and do some minimal housework and then indulge...

December 14, 2006

Hem it with Quietness

His thoughts said, What if I have not much time to gather my portion?His Father...

December 11, 2006

One thing after Another

Haven’t even booted my computer up for three days. I think this weekend was actually...

December 07, 2006

First Snow

Its really coming down. Thank goodness its snow and not rain. Too much good solid...

December 06, 2006

Eat! Eat!

"If you're good during the service you can have a banana at the end. If...

December 04, 2006

CHEER UP!

Have been in a low level bad mood all day. Tried various techniques to pull...

December 03, 2006

What are you for?

We've just, for this year, scrapped the usual Advent Lectionary (as far as preaching goes)...

December 02, 2006

And so we baked

One more bake sale come and gone. We ladies did manage to squash in a...

December 01, 2006

Bake Sale

When we arrived here at our present job (Church of the Good Shepherd) I was...

November 2006

November 28, 2006

Leftovers

Pizza Dough1 pkg active dry yeast, 1 1/3 cups warm water, 3 cups (or so)...

November 28, 2006

I try always to think of what my husband would do, and do that

As usual my brain is jelly having spent all day chained to the kitchen and...

November 28, 2006

His Sensitivity Knows No Bounds

Micah spent an evening at our house and endeared himself very much to both our...

November 26, 2006

Let the whole earth praise the Lord

Excellent day at church. Hoards of angels and baby sheep roved over the church circus...