Funeral notices
August 29, 2006 | 1 comment
Have you ever questioned the phrasing “called to the arms of the Lord” when it is written in obituaries? It troubles me when I read the words for they imply it is God’s will for a person to die, which
Drug ads sell disease
August 29, 2006 | No comments yet
Check out an insightful csmonitor.com article on how drug ads sell sickness to promote their products. The article reports that in the effort of pharmaceutical companies to create new disease markets, they’re frightening people into taking more prescriptions than they
Our cat Heidi
August 26, 2006 | 2 comments
We’re home from our brief trip to the mountains and back into the swing of tennis, swimming, and work for the kids and daily routine and fun adventure for the parents. We took our cat Heidi to the cabin this
Don’t give up
August 22, 2006 | 1 comment
I’m vacationing with my family at our cabin in the Blue Mountains in Oregon State for a few days. My son and I have been splitting wood for burning in the woodstove this winter. Operating an axe is not one
God is watching out for you
August 19, 2006 | No comments yet
A friend went for a walk through the woods on a very windy evening recently. Part way down the trail a mental nudge stopped him in his tracks. He looked down and saw his shoelace untied. As he bent to