Sharing

Thursday, January 12, 2006

There isn’t much that I can do, but I can share my bread with you, and sometimes share a sorrow, too---as on our way we go.

There isn’t much that I can do, but I can sit an hour with you, and I can share a joke with you, and sometimes share reverses, too---as on our way we go.

There isn’t much that I can do, but I can share my flowers with you, and I can share my books with you, and sometimes share your burdens, too---as on our way we go.

There isn’t much that I can do, but I can share my songs with you, and I can share my mirth with you, and sometimes come and laugh with you---as on our way we go.

There isn’t much that I can do, but I can share my hopes with you, and I can share my fears with you, and sometimes shed some tears with you---as on our way we go.

There isn’t much that I can do, but I can share my friends with you, and I can share my life with you, and oftentimes share a prayer with you---as on our way we go.
Author Unknown

YOU GOTTA KEEP DANCIN’

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Reading through the Bible every year is a good habit. Sure you will come to chapters that are so familiar that you can quote them. But you will also come to some Scriptures that will amaze you. You will think, “How could I have missed that?” Since it is just January, I am still in Genesis and Matthew. It’s exciting to be there. I’m not in a hurry to move on.

I’m also reading a devotional thought each day from Tim Hansel’s, Keep On Dancin,’ Daily Readings to Celebrate Life. I have many devotionals but this is the best. Tim is practical and down to earth. This morning I pulled another of Tim’s books off the shelf, You Gotta Keep Dancin’. This has to be one of my all time favorites. I recommend it to everybody. His theme is, in the midst of life’s hurts, you can choose joy! That theme is the sub-title of the book. Wow! I can’t say enough about this book. I never read this book without thinking of some friend that also needs to be reading it. There are a lot of hurts in life. This book offers help and hope.

LIFE IS ROUGH BUT YOU GOTTA KEEP DANCIN’. DANCE MY FRIEND! DANCE!

FROM MY READING

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience. Serge Kahili King

In a very real sense we are the authors of our own lives. Mandy Aftel

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley

In every adult there lurks a child---an eternal child, something that is always coming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the human personality which wants to develop and become whole. C.G. Jung

The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are that they should be living for. Joseph Campbell

Whenever two people meet there are really six present. There is each man as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. William James

Passion

Monday, January 09, 2006

The name of the movie was Serendipity. There was one line that I especially liked. I may not quote it exactly, but it went something like this: " The Greeks don't write obituaries. When a man dies they ask, Did he have passion?"

That's it! That's it! DID HE HAVE PASSION?

A Message For Singles

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Lauren F. Winner is the highly acclaimed author of the memoir Girl meets God. She is currently completing a Ph.D. in American religious history at Columbia and has written for the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Christianity Today, and Christian Century.

I really like the following words from her book, Real Sex-the truth about chastity:

Perhaps we ought not fixate on the call to lifelong
singleness. Some people, of course, are called to
to singleness for a spell, if even a very long spell.
Often, our task is to discern a call to singleness for
right now, and that's not difficult. If you are single
right now, you are called, right now, to be single--called
to live single life as robustly, and gospel-conformingly,
as you possibly can. (Emphasis mine)

A POCKET FULL OF BEANS

Saturday, January 07, 2006

A pocket full of money would be better, but what I have is a pocket full of beans---pinto beans. I don’t always go around with beans in my pocket. These are left over from last night. Not last night’s dinner, they are uncooked---last night’s beaning of the birds. Well I didn’t really bean them, I missed. But my bean throwing was close enough to them that two beans sent two birds flying. I didn’t really want to hit them, although the beans wouldn’t have hurt them from the distance I was throwing, I just wanted to drive them off my window ledges.

We had our house painted about a year ago and it is nice and clean and we want to keep it that way. The pigeons evidently don’t care much for clean. Modesty is not even in their vocabulary. They just let it rip wherever they are. As a result there is bird poop all over our new paint job. Well, not all over, but all over the window ledges. About three weeks ago I cleaned it all off, which is no small job. When I got through the front of the house, over the garage, was nice and clean. It looked like we had just had a wonderful winter rain. (It hasn’t rained in Phoenix in months) However, in a few days the crap had begun to pile up again. It began to look hopeless. I didn’t know how to get rid of them and I certainly didn’t want to move.

Yesterday I cleaned the house again. Last night and the night before I attacked! The first night I couldn’t find the beans so I used almonds. The almonds worked well. The birds left for the night and didn’t come back until last night. I could have used almonds again but I decided I had rather get rid of beans than almonds.

How long do I plan to keep this up? I honestly don’t know. I’m pretty stubborn---but so are those birds! Please don’t send me your suggestions for getting rid of birds unless you know of something besides: fake owls, messy glue like substances and poisons.

Right now I have a pocket full of beans and a 22- rifle in the closet. If you drive by some day and my windows are all gone and the front of the house is all shot up---come in and talk to me about the owl, I will be ready to listen.